Guns, germs, and steel

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.?

A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands

Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain

The 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

The future of human history as a science

Who are the Japanese? 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today.