Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, "Guns, Germs and Steel" encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers.
Natural scientists should not try to explain human society or its history in a “pattern” because that will fall into a trap like what we see in the last century that led to the catastrophe of humanity...Natural scientists should not try to explain human society or its history in a “pattern” because that will fall into a trap like what we see in the last century that led to the catastrophe of humanity. But maybe that’s not solely their own fault. (展开)
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0 有用 大白 2022-04-09 21:03:44
A great read on the development of mankind, but highly wordy and repetitive.
0 有用 吃蘋果要削皮 2021-10-31 01:33:33
中学时候的读物，最近回头看感受到人类的渺小与生命周而复始地更替，文明果然就是在一次次的毁灭中重新调整
0 有用 燕居 2017-08-24 00:13:22
读了很久，以至于读到后面忘了前面在说什么。
0 有用 水青木羽 2015-07-05 09:41:39
原版通读。这本书写的不是大历史 , 而是比较先进文明和落后文明的差异 ,并试图找出原因 . 从地理环境入手 , 以动植物的驯养(尤其是大型哺乳动物)和扩散为重点 , 来解释问题 .
0 有用 Sherley 2013-01-06 03:24:24
Using scientific inevitability to explain historical changes is dangerous.
0 有用 Eureka 2023-12-07 01:26:19 日本
Natural scientists should not try to explain human society or its history in a “pattern” because that will fall into a trap like what we see in the last century that led to the catastrophe of humanity... Natural scientists should not try to explain human society or its history in a “pattern” because that will fall into a trap like what we see in the last century that led to the catastrophe of humanity. But maybe that’s not solely their own fault. (展开)
0 有用 momo 2023-06-26 17:42:01 广东
看了之后打开了以前没有过的思考角度。 例如为什么中国以前科技技术都领先，后来反而落于后风。 我觉得需要啃第二遍。
0 有用 马上没有双下巴 2023-06-25 00:38:05 美国
这样的历史书我可以出自尊敬叫它一声科学
0 有用 橘真一 2023-06-21 01:44:44 上海
入手~
0 有用 Holly White 2023-03-27 19:24:57 重庆
来试试直接原版。 开启了一个新的看待时间的视角，就是原著读得磕磕绊绊，似懂非懂的……不过植物和食物那章节倒是很明白~anyway，继续吧，囫囵吞枣也是吞!