PATTERNED PLANET: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS Why has
human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer
Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and
biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians,
Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An
ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns,
Germs and Steel remains a ground-breaking and humane work of popular
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