Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
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This record gives 303.4 in the social-sciences class. Its subject headings include social evolution, civilization, ethnology, the environment’s effects on people and culture diffusion. A book can discuss long stretches of the past while this catalogue classifies its approach with society rather than the 900s. The recorded 1999 issue includes a new afterword. Sapiens provides a related comparison: its selected record gives 909. These are two source-specific classifications, not a rule that every book about human societies must follow one of those numbers.
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