From the Book - Regular Print - Twentieth anniversary edition.
Part 1 From Eden To Cajamarca --
Chapter 1 Up to the Starting Line What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? 35 --
Chapter 2 A Natural Experiment of History How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands 52 --
Chapter 3 Collision at Cajamarca Why the lnca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain 65 --
Part 2 Rise and Spread of Food Production --
Chapter 4 Farmer Power The roots of guns, germs, and steel 81 --
Chapter 5 History's Haves and Have-Nots Geographic differences in the onset of food production 89 --
Chapter 6 To Farm or Not to Farm Causes of the spread of food production 100 --
Chapter 7 How to Make an Almond The unconscious development of ancient crops 109 --
Chapter 8 Apples Or Indians Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? 126 --
Chapter 9 Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? 151 --
Chapter 10 Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? 169 --
Part 3 From Food to Guns, Germs, and Steel --
Chapter 11 Lethal Gift of Livestock The evolution of germs 187 --
Chapter 12 Blueprints and Borrowed Letters The evolution of writing 206 --
Chapter 13 Necessity's Mother The evolution of technology 229 --
Chapter 14 From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy The evolution of government and religion 254 --
Part 4 Around the World in Six Chapters --
Chapter 15 Yali's People The histories of Australia and New Guinea 283 --
Chapter 16 How China Became Chinese The history of East Asia 308 --
Chapter 17 Speedboat to Polynesia The history of the Austronesian expansion 320 --
Chapter 18 Hemispheres Colliding The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared 339 --
Chapter 19 How Africa Became Black The history of Africa 361 --
Chapter 20 Who Are the Japanese? The history of Japan 386.
