Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fate of Human Society (revised Edition)
by G
About This Novel
Won the Pulitzer Prize in the United States and the Popular Science Book Award in the United Kingdom! Bill Gates specially recommends this work! An alternative interpretation of the history of human social development, a unique examination of the differences between Eastern and Western civilizations; a work specially recommended by the American Pulitzer Prize and Bill Gates. Why is the distribution of wealth and power in modern society the way it is today and not in other forms? Why are Europeans and Asians not the natives of the Americas and Africa but Europeans and Asians who cross the oceans to kill, conquer and exterminate? Why are the differences in life among various ethnic groups so great? Historians often ignore the various inequalities among modern humans and countries, but in this work, the author gives completely different meanings to many familiar and taken-for-granted answers. In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist and anthropologist Jared Diamond shockingly destroys racist theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors that actually help shape history's broadest patterns. This book is a major advance in understanding the history of human social development. It records the modern world and the reasons for its many inequalities. It is also a true history of all peoples around the world. It is a complete and consistent narrative of human life and is highly readable. This book, together with Diamond's other two books "Collapse" and "The Third Chimpanzee", can be called "the great history of mankind". This book is revised and published based on the foreign original version in 2005, with a new chapter "Who Are the Japanese?"
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Official(33)Scraped 2d ago
This book makes me want to sleep
First of all, I have to say that I have read half of it and have reached the text part. Because of my lack of personal knowledge breadth and depth of thought, I really feel like falling asleep. . . Let's wait a few years and see if there is any new understanding.
Good book worth pondering
This is a book about the evolution of human civilization, and its conclusion sounds desperate. It may have been doomed 40,000 years ago that our world would evolve into what it is today. The direction of the continent, ecological distribution, and terrain undulations all determine how our ancestors survived, how they expanded, how they formed complex political systems, and how they invented various technologies. Facing the natural environment, what humans can do is very little. No matter how powerful the Native American empire is, it is so weak in front of a handful of European colonists. But the fact that humans can stand out from the four billion creatures that have evolved in the history of the earth itself also shows that we have the most powerful adaptability and learning ability. After clarifying the causal chains that shape the evolutionary differences between civilizations on different continents, we may be able to see the path toward a more efficient and innovative society.
A good book with an imaginative level
There are many interdisciplinary subjects, and it will be boring to read without basic multidisciplinary knowledge. My personal interest is history and geography. Watching with hunger and thirst. Hahaha 🤕
Regarding the uneven development of Homo sapiens on different continents over the past 10,000 years, the author actually has only two conclusions: 1. Resource determinism 2. Optimal split principle
After reading this book, the history of mankind is unfolding before your eyes like a painting. What could be more joyful than this?
Collect first and then read
Classic.
good book
It's worth supporting. The content is very in-depth. I bought the physical book and it seemed to cost about 70. The electronic version is so cheap.
Anyway, I bought it!
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Official(33)Scraped 2d ago
This book makes me want to sleep
First of all, I have to say that I have read half of it and have reached the text part. Because of my lack of personal knowledge breadth and depth of thought, I really feel like falling asleep. . . Let's wait a few years and see if there is any new understanding.
Good book worth pondering
This is a book about the evolution of human civilization, and its conclusion sounds desperate. It may have been doomed 40,000 years ago that our world would evolve into what it is today. The direction of the continent, ecological distribution, and terrain undulations all determine how our ancestors survived, how they expanded, how they formed complex political systems, and how they invented various technologies. Facing the natural environment, what humans can do is very little. No matter how powerful the Native American empire is, it is so weak in front of a handful of European colonists. But the fact that humans can stand out from the four billion creatures that have evolved in the history of the earth itself also shows that we have the most powerful adaptability and learning ability. After clarifying the causal chains that shape the evolutionary differences between civilizations on different continents, we may be able to see the path toward a more efficient and innovative society.
A good book with an imaginative level
There are many interdisciplinary subjects, and it will be boring to read without basic multidisciplinary knowledge. My personal interest is history and geography. Watching with hunger and thirst. Hahaha 🤕
Regarding the uneven development of Homo sapiens on different continents over the past 10,000 years, the author actually has only two conclusions: 1. Resource determinism 2. Optimal split principle
After reading this book, the history of mankind is unfolding before your eyes like a painting. What could be more joyful than this?
Collect first and then read
Classic.
good book
It's worth supporting. The content is very in-depth. I bought the physical book and it seemed to cost about 70. The electronic version is so cheap.
Anyway, I bought it!
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