Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates