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Index
Cover
Praise
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright
CONTENTS
Preface to the Paperback Edition
PROLOGUE YALI’S QUESTION: The regionally differing courses of history
PART ONE FROM EDEN TO CAJAMARCA
CHAPTER 1 UP TO THE STARTING LINE: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.?
CHAPTER 2 A NATURAL EXPERIMENT OF HISTORY: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands
CHAPTER 3 COLLISION AT CAJAMARCA: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain
PART TWO THE RISE AND SPREAD OF FOOD PRODUCTION
CHAPTER 4 FARMER POWER: The roots of guns, germs, and steel
CHAPTER 5 HISTORY’S HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS: Geographic differences in the onset of food production
CHAPTER 6 TO FARM OR NOT TO FARM: Causes of the spread of food production
CHAPTER 7 HOW TO MAKE AN ALMOND: The unconscious development of ancient crops
CHAPTER 8 APPLES OR INDIANS: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants?
CHAPTER 9 ZEBRAS, UNHAPPY MARRIAGES, AND THE ANNA KARENINA PRINCIPLE: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated?
CHAPTER 10 SPACIOUS SKIES AND TILTED AXES: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents?
PART THREE FROM FOOD TO GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL
CHAPTER 11 LETHAL GIFT OF LIVESTOCK: The evolution of germs
CHAPTER 12 BLUEPRINTS AND BORROWED LETTERS: The evolution of writing
CHAPTER 13 NECESSITY’S MOTHER: The evolution of technology
CHAPTER 14 FROM EGALITARIANISM TO KLEPTOCRACY: The evolution of government and religion
PART FOUR AROUND THE WORLD IN FIVE CHAPTERS
CHAPTER 15 YALI’S PEOPLE: The histories of Australia and New Guinea
CHAPTER 16 HOW CHINA BECAME CHINESE: The history of East Asia
CHAPTER 17 SPEEDBOAT TO POLYNESIA: The history of the Austronesian expansion
CHAPTER 18 HEMISPHERES COLLIDING: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared
CHAPTER 19 HOW AFRICA BECAME BLACK: The history of Africa
EPILOGUE THE FUTURE OF HUMAN HISTORY AS A SCIENCE
2003 Afterword: Guns, Germs, and Steel Today
Acknowledgments
Further Readings
Credits
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