01218nam a2200205Ia 4500 CTU_220116 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 303.4 D537 Diamond, Jared Guns, germs, and steel : The fates of human societies Jared Diamond New York W. W. Norton & Company 1997 In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Tiến hóa xã hội,Social evolution Trúc Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ