Guns, Germs and Steel (original 1997; udgave 2005)

Indeholder "Preface. Why is World History Like an Onion?", "Prologue. Yali's Question", " The regionally differing courses of history", "Part 1. From Eden to Cajamarca", " Chapter 1. Up to the Starting Line", " What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.?", " Chapter 2. A Natural Experiment of History", " How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands", " Chapter 3. Collision at Cajamarca", " Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain", "Part 2. The Rise and Spread of Food Production", " Chapter 4. Farmer Power", " The roots of guns, germs, and steel", " Chapter 5. History's Haves and Have-nots", " Geographic differences in the onset of food production", " Chapter 6. To Farm or not To Farm", " Causes of the spread of food production", " Chapter 7. How to Make an Almond", " The unconscious development of ancient crops", " Chapter 8. Apples or Indians", " Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants?", " Chapter 9. Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle", " Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated?", " Chapter 10. Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes", " Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents?", "Part 3. From Food to Guns, Germs, and Steel", " Chapter 11. Lethal Gift of Livestock", " The evolution of germs", " Chapter 12. Blueprints and Borrowed Letters", " The evolution of writing", " Chapter 13. Necessity's Mother", " The evolution of technology", " Chapter 14. From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy", " The evolution of government and religion", "Part 4. Around the World in Five Chapters", " Chapter 15. Yali's People", " The histories of Australia and New Guinea", " Chapter 16. How China became Chinese", " The history of East Asia", " Chapter 17. Speedboat to Polynesia", " The history of the Austronesian expansion", " Chapter 18. Hemispheres Colliding", " The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared", " Chapter 19. How Africa became Black", " The history of Africa", "Epilogue. The Future of Human History as a Science", "Acknowledgments", "Further Readings", "Credits", "Index".

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