Patterns of Life

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Guns Germs and Steel which was named one of TIMEs best nonfiction books of all time the numberone international bestseller Collapse and most recently The World Until Yesterday. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath Diamonds work has been influential in the fields of anthropology biology ornithology ecology and history among others.PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKSWhy has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prizewinning book Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography not race moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans Asians Native Americans subSaharan Africans and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history biology ecology and linguistics Guns Germs and Steel remains a groundbreaking and humane work of popular science.Monumental and monumentally goodA book of big questions and big answersA book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human pastFascinating coherent compassionate and completely accessibleA prodigious convincing work conceived on a grand scale