Guns, Germs, and Steel
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- Author
- Jared Diamond
- Genre
- history / anthropology / geography
- Publication Year
- 1997
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| Option | Score | Author | Genre | Publication Year |
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| A Confession | 0 | Leo Tolstoy | memoir / philosophy / religion | 1884 |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel | 0 | Jared Diamond | history / anthropology / geography | 1997 |
| How Not to Be Wrong | 0 | Jordan Ellenberg | mathematics / popular science | 2014 |
| Labyrinths | 0 | Jorge Luis Borges | literary fiction / short stories | 1962 |
| Prisoners of Geography | 0 | Tim Marshall | geopolitics / geography | 2015 |
| Superforecasting | 0 | Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner | psychology / forecasting | 2015 |
| The Black Swan | 0 | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | philosophy / risk / economics | 2007 |
| The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | 0 | Oliver Sacks | neuroscience / medicine / case studies | 1985 |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | 0 | Daniel Kahneman | psychology / behavioral economics | 2011 |
| This Will Make You Smarter | 0 | John Brockman | science / ideas / essays | 2012 |
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Why did Europeans conquer the Americas and not the other way around? Diamond's answer has almost nothing to do with intelligence, culture, or effort.
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