Vete, vapen & virus

en kort sammanfattning av mänsklighetens historia under de senaste 13 000 åren

444, pagine

lingua Swedish

Pubblicato il 26 Settembre 2006 da Norstedt.

ISBN:
978-91-1-301630-6
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Numero OCLC:
185373431

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (subtitled A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years in Britain) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond. In 1998, it won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book, and produced by the National Geographic Society, was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.The book attempts to explain why Eurasian and North African civilizations have survived and conquered others, while arguing against the idea that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate primarily in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to …

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  • Food production
  • Agriculture
  • Socioeconomic organization
  • History
  • Antropologi