GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL

PBS has an online version of Jared Diamonds great book on the causes of human diversity.

First published in the United States by W.W.Norton and Company, on March 1 1997, Guns, Germs and Steel was initially subtitled ‘The Fates of Human Societies.’ Within a few months, this subtitle had evolved into ‘A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years.’