The World Until Yesterday
The World Until Yesterday The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that…
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The World Until Yesterday
The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? BookpageMost of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. "As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book.
While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders