- Social life and customs, Social evolution, Dani (New Guinean people), Cultural assimilation
Overview: Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemplative and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 552
- Publisher
- Editions Gallimard, Debate, Debolsillo
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English, Korean
- ISBN
- 9781101606001
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Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author. He has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books, most notably *Guns, Germs, and Steel* (1997), which received multiple awards, including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
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