Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Topic

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Instructions

Read and write a book review. Immerse yourself in the historical legacy of any or one or all of these scientists: Charles Darwin, Nicolaus Steno, James Hutton, Neil Shubin, Jared Diamond. Obtain any or all of the books listed below, and summarize the essence of each chapter in the book by using a reading evaluation form for each and every chapter.

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Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.

Title and Author: Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.

PART ONE- FROM EDEN TO CAJAMARCA

Chapter 1- Up to the Starting Line

Based on your reading, summarize below why you think the article was written; and list major ideas that it documents

In this chapter, the author begins by documenting how animal and plant life began to evolve at the end of the last Ice Age and the Pleistocene era. Around this time, members of the great Ape family- which are the animals most closely related to humans- broke into different populations. One of these populations would evolve into gorillas. Fossils indicate that ‘proto-humans’ like Australopithecus Africanus, Homo Habilis, and Homo Erectus evolved in Africa. Homo Erectus would later spread from Africa to Java in Southeast Asia. Over five hundred thousand years ago, the human populations of Eurasia and Africa began to diverge from East Asian populations and from each other.

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