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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 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. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.

贾雷德·戴蒙德，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校医学院生理学教授以生理学开始其科学生涯，进而研究演化生物学和生物地理学，被选为美国艺术与科学院、国家科学院院士、美国哲学学会会员，曾获得麦克阿瑟基金会研究员基金及全国地理学会伯尔奖，在《发现》、《博物学》、《自然》和《地理》杂志上发表过论文200多篇。