Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (April 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393317552
ISBN-13: 978-0393317558
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more) big wild mammals, domesticable wild plants, archaeological hallmarks, wild mammal species, blueprint copying, mammal domestication, indigenous food production, founder crops, incipient farmers, local domesticates, intensified food production, broadest pattern, wild grass species, continental differences, wild plant species, local domestication, centralized political organization, mutant seeds, competing societies, crowd diseases, intensive food production, independent domestications, dense human populations, plant domestication, other language families
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more) New Guinea, Fertile Crescent, United States, New World, Southeast Asia, North America, South America, New Zealand, Old World, Southwest Asia, South Africa, South China, Saharan Africa, West Africa, North Africa, Aboriginal Australians, South Chinese, Indus Valley, East Africa, Easter Island, Greater Australia, North China, Torres Strait, Great Plains, Malay Peninsula
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