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Jared Diamond

Born10 September 1937 (1937-09-10) (age 70)
Boston
OccupationProfessor of Geography at UCLA, Nonfiction writer
NationalityAmerican
Writing period1972-
SubjectsEvolutionary Biology
Environmentalism
Geography
Anthropology
Ornithology
Linguistics

Jared Mason Diamond (b. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία - geografia) is the study of the Earth and its lands features inhabitants and phenomena The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as Fact. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of Biology concerned with the origin of Species from a Common descent, and Descent of species Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and Social movement centered on a concern for the conservation and improvement of the environment. Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία - geografia) is the study of the Earth and its lands features inhabitants and phenomena Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/ from Greek grc ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, "human" -λογία -logia) is the study of Ornithology (from Greek ὄρνις ὄρνιθος ornis, ornithos, "bird" and λόγος logos, "knowledge" is the branch of Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields 10 September 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, lecturer, and nonfiction author. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of Biology concerned with the origin of Species from a Common descent, and Descent of species Physiology (from Greek grc φύσις physis, "nature origin" and grc -λογία -logia) is the study of the mechanical physical Biogeography is the study of the distribution of Biodiversity over Space and Time. Lecturer is a term of Academic rank. In the United Kingdom lecturer is the name given to University Teachers in their first permanent Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as Fact. An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Diamond works as a professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία - geografia) is the study of the Earth and its lands features inhabitants and phenomena Physiology (from Greek grc φύσις physis, "nature origin" and grc -λογία -logia) is the study of the mechanical physical The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel (1998), which also won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science. The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, Guns Germs and Steel The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic Honor society with the mission of "fostering and recognizing excellence" in the Undergraduate Liberal arts He received the National Medal of Science in 1999. The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in Science and Engineering who have made important

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Biography

Diamond was born in Boston of Polish-Jewish heritage, to a physician father and a teacher/musician/linguist mother. The history of the Jews in Poland dates back over a Millennium. A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health After attending the Roxbury Latin School, he earned an AB degree from Harvard in 1958 and his Ph.D. in physiology and membrane biophysics from Cambridge University in 1961. Roxbury Latin School is the oldest school in North America in continuous existence "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Physiology (from Greek grc φύσις physis, "nature origin" and grc -λογία -logia) is the study of the mechanical physical Biophysics (also biological physics) is an Interdisciplinary Science that employs and develops theories and methods of the Physical sciences for The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the During 1962-1966, he returned to Harvard as a Junior Fellow. The Harvard Society of Fellows is a collection of luminaries selected by Harvard University to be given special honors upon whom distinctive academic and intellectual opportunities He became a professor of physiology at UCLA Medical School in 1966. The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United While in his twenties, he also developed a second, parallel, career in the ecology and evolution of New Guinea birds, and has since led numerous trips to explore New Guinea and nearby islands. New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the world's second largest island, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known In his fifties, Diamond gradually developed a third career in environmental history, becoming a professor of geography and of environmental health sciences at UCLA, his current position.

Works

Diamond is the author of a number of popular science works that combine anthropology, biology, ecology, linguistics, genetics, and history. For the 1935-1949 film series see Popular Science (film. Popular Science is an American monthly Magazine founded in 1872 Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/ from Greek grc ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, "human" -λογία -logia) is the study of Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles Ecology (from Greek grc οἶκος oikos, "house(hold" and grc -λογία -logia) is the scientific study of Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields Genetics (from Ancient Greek grc-Latn genetikos, “genitive” and that from grc-Latn genesis, “origin” a discipline of Biology, is History is the study of the past particularly the written record Those who study history as a Profession are called Historians Etymology

His best-known work is the non-fiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel (1998), which asserts that the main international issues of our time are legacies of processes that began during the early-modern period, in which civilizations that had experienced an extensive amount of "human development" began to intrude upon technologically less advanced civilizations around the world. The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, Guns Germs and Steel The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA Diamond's quest is to explain why Eurasian civilizations, as a whole, have survived and conquered others, while refuting the belief that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, genetic, or moral superiority. For the superstate in George Orwell 's novel see Nations of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Hegemony (hɨˈdʒɛməni (Amer /hɨˈɡɛməni/ (Brit (ἡγεμονία hēgemonía) is a concept that has been used to describe and explain the dominance of one social Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies do not reflect cultural or racial differences, but rather originate in environmental differences powerfully amplified by various positive feedback loops, and fills the book with examples throughout history. Positive feedback, sometimes referred to as "cumulative causation" is a Feedback loop system in which the system responds to perturbation in the same direction He identifies the main processes and factors of civilizational development that were present in Eurasia, from the origin of human beings in Africa to the proliferation of agriculture and technology.

In his following book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), Diamond examines a range of past civilizations and societies, attempting to identify why they collapsed into ruins or survived only in a massively reduced form. Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is a 2005 book by Jared M He considers what contemporary societies can learn from these societal collapses. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, he dismantles previous ethnocentric explanations for the collapses which he discusses, and focuses instead on ecological factors. He contends that most plants and animals cannot be domesticated and that the movement of people which succeeded has tended to be in an east-west direction at nearly the same latitude. He pays particular attention to the Norse settlements in Greenland, which vanished as the climate got colder, while the surrounding Inuit culture thrived. As early as the 10th century Norse sailors (often referred to as Vikings explored and settled areas of the North Atlantic, including the northeastern fringes of Inuit (plural the singular Inuk, means "man" or "person" is a general term for a group of culturally similar Indigenous peoples inhabiting

He also has chapters on the collapse of the Maya, Anasazi, and Easter Island civilizations, among others. The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican Civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the Pre-Columbian Americas "Anasazi" directs here For the X-Files episode see Anasazi (The X-Files. He cites five factors that often contribute to a collapse, but shows how the one factor that all had in common was mismanagement of natural resources. He follows this with chapters on prospering civilizations that managed their resources very well, such as Tikopia Island and Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate. Tikopia is a small and High island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the, and the, was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the Shoguns of

In Collapse, Diamond distances himself from the charges of "ecological or environmental determinism" that were leveled against him in Guns, Germs, and Steel [1]. This is particularly evident in his chapter comparing Haiti and the Dominican Republic, two nations that share the same island (and similar environments) but which pursued notably different futures, primarily on the strength of their differing histories, cultures, and leaders. Haiti ( English: ˈheɪ·tiː or haɪ·ˈjiː·tiː French Haïti a·i·ti Haitian Creole: The Dominican Republic ( Spanish: República Dominicana;) is a nation located in the Caribbean region and shares the island of Hispaniola with

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NAMEDiamond, Jared Mason
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTIONAmerican nonfiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH10 September 1937
PLACE OF BIRTHBoston
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as Fact. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
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