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Book Review Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Jared Diamond. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997, 480 pp.

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Rushton, J.P. Book Review Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Jared Diamond. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997, 480 pp.. Population and Environment 21, 99–107 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022157211445

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