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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 nonfiction book by the American author Jared Diamond.
The Anna Karenina principle was popularized by Jared Diamond in his 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel. [2] Diamond uses this principle to illustrate why so few wild animals have been successfully domesticated throughout history, as a deficiency in any one of a great number of factors can render a species undomesticable.
1997: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (ISBN 978-0-099-30278-0). Also published with the title Guns, germs and steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years (ISBN 978-0099302780) 2005: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (ISBN 978-0241958681)
My previous book (Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies), had applied the comparative method to the opposite problem: the differing rates of buildup of human societies on different continents over the last 13,000 years. In the present book focusing on collapses rather than buildups, I compare many past and present societies that ...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Winner Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works: Finalist Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster: Finalist 1999 John McPhee: Annals of the Former World: Winner Elliott Currie Crime and Punishment in America: Finalist Judith Rich Harris
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Impressive article about impressive book. I think it is close to FA criteria - what do you think? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 20:41, 5 November 2005 (UTC) []