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1	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies more books like this by Jared Diamond add to wishlist This history examines the influences of geography and environment on the development of civilization and seeks to find large patterns that might explain why, in the modern period, some groups seem to have significantly greater material wealth than others. The author is an evolutionary biologist and his scientific approach to human history draws ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal more books like this by Jared Diamond add to wishlist A provocative look at mankind's evolution from the ape into the complex creature we call human. By standards of other animals, our powerful civilization appears unique. So do many of our behaviors, including our sexual habits and the ways we select mates. Yet in many respects we are merely another species of ape--our genes are more than 98% ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.07! \| first editions
3	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed more books like this by Jared Diamond add to wishlist In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of this generation with the romance and mystery of lost worlds. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Guns germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13000 years more books like this by Jared M. Diamond add to wishlist This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis ... see all copies from £3.18! new only from £7.21!
5	What Evolution is more books like this by Ernst Mayr, Jared Diamond (Foreword by) add to wishlist The nonagenarian Ernst Mayer provides an explanation of Darwinian evolution written for those readers who are either unclear how evolution works, or who understand the function of evolutionary theory but question Darwin's version of it. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.63! \| first editions
6	Why is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality more books like this by Jared Diamond add to wishlist To us humans the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be?Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even when the female cant be ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.79! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Collapse more books like this by Jared Diamond add to wishlist The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" examines the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations. Abridged. 5 CDs. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £10.35!
8	Why Sex is Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality more books like this by Jared Diamond add to wishlist Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why are human females the only mammals to go through menopause? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large? There is no more knowledgeable authority than the award-winning author of THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE to answer these intriguing questions. Here is a delightfully entertaining and ... see all copies from £10.57! first editions
9	Guns, Germs, and Steel more books like this by Jared Diamond, Professor Grover Gardner (Read by) add to wishlist This history examines the influences of geography and environment on the development of civilization and seeks to find large patterns that might explain why, in the modern period, some groups seem to have significantly greater material wealth than others. The author is an evolutionary biologist and his scientific approach to human history draws ... see all copies from £8.73! new only from £12.43! \| first editions
10	The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography more books like this by Ernst Mayr, Jared Diamond add to wishlist Ernst Mayr is one of the principal architects of the 'neo-Darwinian synthesis', which has been the dominant perspective in 20th century evolutionary biology. Jared Diamond is one of the most wide-ranging minds in biology, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "Guns, Germs, and Steel". Mayr and Diamond decided in 1970 to collaborate on an ... see all copies from £23.68! new only from £49.57! \| first editions
11	The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee more books like this by Jared M. Diamond add to wishlist More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys out life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal origins. see all copies from £3.57! new only from £6.34! \| first editions
12 view cover	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond add to wishlist From groundbreaking writer and thinker, Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island or to the architects of the ... see all copies from £7.08! new only from £7.89!
13	Eco and Evol Comm C more books like this by Martin L Cody, Jared Diamond add to wishlist In recent times, the science of ecology has been rejuvenated and has moved to a central position in biology. This volume contains eighteen original, major contributions by leaders in the field, all associates of the late Robert MacArthur, whose work has stimulated many of the recent developments in ecology. The intellectual ferment of the field is ... see all copies from £14.12! new only from £83.12!
14	Ecology and Evolution of Communities more books like this by Martin L Cody (Editor), Jared Diamond (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £25.81!
15	Guns, germs and steel : how the inequalities of wealth and power among modern peoples were moulded by prehistory more books like this by Jared M. Diamond add to wishlist This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the confrontations between less and more advanced people to see how this led to today's inequalities. see all copies from £7.71! first editions
16	Community Ecology more books like this by Diamond, Case add to wishlist see all copies from £58.54!
17 view cover	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail Or Survive by Jared M. Diamond add to wishlist In Collapse, Jared Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined temples of Angkor Wat, the long-abandonded statues of Easter Island, the crumbling Maya pyramids of the Yucatan? All saw their cultures collapse because of environmental crises. And it looks ... see all copies from £10.24! first editions
18	Kollaps by Jared; Vogel Diamond, Sebastian add to wishlist see all copies from £15.39! new only from £19.08!
19 view cover	Great Minds of Science by Dr. Robert T Bakker, PH.D., Robert C Gallo, Jared Diamond add to wishlist Scientists explain advances in their fields, including paleontology, virology, biology, oceanography, astronomy, and artificial intelligence, and offer their own personal insights. see all copies from £7.87! new only from £7.87!
20	De L'Inègalitè Parmi Les Sociètès by Jared Diamond add to wishlist see all copies from £17.43! new only from £59.37!
21	Le Troisiëme Chimpanzè by Jared Diamond add to wishlist see all copies from £59.37! new only from £59.37!
22 view cover	Colapso/ Collapse: Por Que Unas Sociedades Perduran Y Otras Desaparecen / How Societies Choose to Fail Or Succeed (Historias) (Spanish Edition) by Jared Diamond add to wishlist see all copies from £26.11! new only from £26.11!
23	Kollaps by Jared Diamond add to wishlist see all copies from £30.20!
24	Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea more books like this by Jared Diamond add to wishlist see all copies from £16.20! new only from £16.20!
25	Arm Und Reich by Jared; Englich Diamond, Volker add to wishlist see all copies from £16.15! new only from £19.95!

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