The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns Germs and Steel explores the profound
lessons that traditional societies offer us todayOver the past 500 years the West achieved
global dominance but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children
care for the elderly or simply live well? In this epic journey into our past Jared Diamond
reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our
ancestors lived for the majority of human history - until virtually yesterday in evolutionary
terms. Drawing on decades of his own fieldwork Diamond explores how tribal people approach
essential human problems from health and diet to conflict resolution and language and
discovers they have much to teach us.Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the
seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns Germs and Steel which was named one of TIME's best
non-fiction books of all time and Collapse a #1 international bestseller. A professor of
geography at UCLA and noted polymath Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of
anthropology biology ornithology ecology and history among others.
