Winner of the Pulitzer Prize |
Yali's Question : The Regionally Differing Courses of History ; From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the Starting Line : What Happened on all the Continents Before 11,000 B.C.? ; Natural Experiment of History : How Geography Molded Societies on the Polynesian Islands ; Collision at Cajamarca : Why the Inca Emperor Atahuallpa did not Capture King Charles I of Spain ; Rise and Spread of Food Production. Farmer Power : The Roots of Guns, Germs, and Steel ; History's haves and have - nots : Geographic Differences in the Onset of Food Production ; To Farm or not to Farm : Causes of the Spread of Food Production ; How to Make an Almond : The Unconscious Development of Ancient Crops ;
Apples or Indians : Why did Peoples of Some Regions Fail to Domesticate Plants ? ; Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle : Why were Most Big Wild Mammal Species Never Domesticated ? ; Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes : Why did Food Production Spread at Different Rates on Different Continents ? ; From Food to Guns, Germs, and Steel. Lethal Gift of Livestock : The Evolution of Germs ; Blueprints and Borrowed Letters : The Evolution of Writing ; Necessity's Mother : The Evolution of Technology ; From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy : The Evolution of Government and Religion ; Around the World in Five Chapters. Yali's People : The Histories of Australia and New Guinea ; How China became Chinese : The History of East Asia ; Speedboat to Polynesia : The History of Austronesian Expansion ; Hemispheres Colliding : The Histories of Eurasia and the Americas Compared ; How Africa became Black : The history of Africa ; Future of Human History as a Science