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by Jared Diamond
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns%2C_Germs_and_Steel
Review : Underlying these immediate causes, however, is what Diamond sees as the central key to understanding human history - food production, or the domestication of plants and animals. In an excellent summary - probably the best popular account I have seen - Diamond chronicles the origins of Agri Culture. He describes where and when food production originated, how it spread with demographic expansion and by emulation, and why it never took off in some regions. He also touches on the largely unconscious coevolutionary (Co Evolve) processes underlying domestication, the origins of specific crops, and the characteristics that made some plants more suitable than others for domestication.
Review : The book is even more persuasive on the systematic edge that food-producers (Agri Culture), wherever they are found, enjoyed (and enjoy) over food-collectors.
Jul'2005 review|Review_of_Guns_Germs_and_Steel.php of PBS mini-series.
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog