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The World Until Yesterday : What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond; OverDrive, Inc is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? “As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel , Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions. The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—

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Author

Jared Diamond; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670024810

Category

history

Subjects

Anthropology, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

3.69 / 5 (5,838 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14