Ordering Thurston's geometries by maps of non-zero degree
  We obtain an ordering of closed aspherical 4-manifolds that carry a non-hyperbolic Thurston geometry. As application, we derive that the Kodaira dimension of geometric 4-manifolds is monotone with respect to the existence of maps of non-zero degree. 
Christoforos Neofytidis
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