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Diamond, Jared M.

Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond ; [with a new afterword about the modern world]. - New York : Norton, 1999. - 494 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Afterword dated 2003: cf. p. 426.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 442-471) and index.

ISBN: 0393317552 (pbk.) 9780393317558 9780393354324

LCCN: 2005284124

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social evolution.
Civilization--History.
Ethnology.
Human beings--Effect of environment on.
Culture diffusion.

LC Class. No.: HM206 / .D48 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 303.4