Jared Diamond (born 10 September 1937 ) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize -winning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997). Sourced History, as well as life...
American Physiologist and Biologist 1937- In 1997, Jared Diamond won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction with his book Guns, Germs and Steel, an analysis of the geographical and environmental origins of the long-term distribution of wealth and power in...
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book...
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WED 3.8 - FRI 3-10 - A geography professor might be considered an unlikely candidate for celebrity. But UCLA scholar Diamond beat the odds, joining the ranks of star scientists with his million-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning "Guns, Germs, and Steel." Since then, he's written another...
University Wire 05-18-2005 (The California Aggie) (U-WIRE) DAVIS, Calif. -- Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," covered the rise and flourishing of societies. It seems only natural that his next book would cover the collapse. On...
Demographics: Advocates of population stabilization -- a euphemism for population reduction -- are highly skilled at gaining attention for their cause. They're not so good, though, at dealing with the facts.From the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which favors a global population of less than 1...
The latest turn in the First Amendment martyrdom of Time's Matthew Cooper and The New York Times' Judith Miller was underdramatic. On Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia posted an 83-page decision online rejecting Mr. Cooper and Ms. Miller's...
