"Why is it that human history unfolded so differently on different continents over the last 13,000 years? I found the question so fascinating that I just had to write the book," Diamond said, ...

So far, Jared Diamond has demonstrated how geography favoured one group of people – Europeans – endowing them with agents of conquest ahead of their rivals around the world. Guns, germs and steel ...

"With a new afterword about the modern world"--Cover. Includes "Reading group guide"--p. [495-496]. Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the ...

Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of ...