SUPPLEMENTAL - FURTHER READINGS

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ACCOUNTS OF PARTICULAR DOMESTICATED ANIMAL SPECIES

by Juliet Clutton-Brock

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FOR HORSES

Equids in the Ancient World by Hans-Peter Uerpmann

Man and Horse in History by Matthew J. Kust

For both of the books above, there were no book covers in goodreads.

Horse in West African History by Robin Law

There was no bookcover in goodreads for the above book either.

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FOR PIGS

Ancestors for the pigs: Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Sus by Colin P Groves

There was no book cover in goodreads for the above book.

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FOR LLAMAS

by Kent V. Flannery

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FOR DOGS

by Douglas J. Brewer

Origins of the Domestic Dog: The Fossil Record by Stanley J. Olsen

There was no bookcover for the Olsen book.

by John Grier & Jeannette J. Varner

Diamond states that the above book by Grier describes the Spaniards' use of dogs as military weapons to kill Indians during the Spanish conquests of the Americas.

FOR ANTELOPES

The Natural History of Antelopes by C. A. Spinage

According to Diamond, the above book by Spinage gives an account of the biology of antelopes, and hence a starting point for trying to understand why none of these seemingly obvious candidates for domestication was actually domesticated.

There was no book cover for this book either in goodreads.

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FOR BIRDS

Crows of the world and Birds of Man's World and Estrildid Finches of the World and Pigeons and Doves of the World by Derek Goodwin

No bookcovers at all.

Unfortunately, the one book by Goodwin that Diamond recommended could not be found at all on goodreads.

This is his obituary and the book Diamond recommended was actually Domestic Birds (Instructions for Young Ornithologists) - but I cannot find it.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comm...

Here is a reference to the book:

http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view...

Synopsis:

Diamond states that Goodwin summarizes the bird species that have been domesticated.

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COMPLEXITIES OF CALIBRATING RADIOCARBON DATES

Radiocarbon After Four Decades by R.E. Taylor

There was no book cover in goodreads for the above.

The above are all of the books and sources cited by Jared Diamond in chapters 1 through the end of 10 (that were found in goodreads).

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CHAPTER ELEVEN

Diamond states that "for a gripping account of the impact of disease on a human population, nothing can match Thucydides' account of the plague of Athens, in book 2 of his Peloponnesian War (available in many translations)."

by Thucydides

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THREE CLASSIC ACCOUNTS OF DISEASE IN HISTORY


by Hans Zizsser

Plague on Us - no book cover - by Geddes Smith

William Hardy McNeill

Diamond states that the Hardy book was written by a distinguished historian rather than a physician and that this book has been especially influential in bringing historians to recognize the impacts of disease. Diamond also wanted to note the two books by Alfred Crosby which were noted in the Prologue.

However, gooodreads is not cross referencing to these books on this site.

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TED talk by Jared Diamond:

http://www.ted.com/talks/jared_diamon...

have not watched it yet.

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thanks