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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Condition:Like New and cowardsExplaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather