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Jared Mason Diamond is a physiologist, ecologist, and the author of several popular science books. Born in Boston in 1937, Diamond earned his B.A. at Harvard and his Ph.D. from Cambridge. A distinguished teacher and researcher, Diamond is well-known for the columns he contributes to the widely read mostrar mais magazines Natural History and Discover. Diamond's book The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal was heralded for its accessibility and for its blending of science and social science. The interdisciplinary Guns, Germs and Steel--Diamond's examination of the relationship between scientific technology and economic disparity--won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. Diamond has won a McArthur Foundation Fellowship in addition to several smaller awards for his science and writing. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Jared Diamond

Natural Experiments of History (2010) — Editor — 136 exemplares
The Last Tree on Easter Island (2021) 19 exemplares
Community Ecology (1986) 9 exemplares
Seks Neden Keyiflidir (2016) 2 exemplares
Building to Code 1 exemplar
Dining With Snakes 1 exemplar
Writing Right 1 exemplar
Father's Milk 1 exemplar
Race Without Color 1 exemplar
Question of Size 1 exemplar
Easter's End 1 exemplar
Why Women Change 1 exemplar
Turning A Man 1 exemplar
Insan Cinselliginin Evrimi (2019) 1 exemplar
Inventer pour le XXIe siècle (2011) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (2008) — Contribuidor — 803 exemplares
What Evolution Is (2001) — Prefácio — 734 exemplares
The Best American Essays 2004 (2004) — Contribuidor — 289 exemplares
The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003) — Contribuidor — 230 exemplares
1000 Events That Shaped the World (2007) — Prefácio — 120 exemplares
Guns, Germs, and Steel [2005 TV mini series] (2005) — Orignal book — 48 exemplares
The Living Bird: 100 Years of Listening to Nature (2015) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
Penguin Green Ideas Collection (2021) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares

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Diamond, Jared Mason
Outros nomes
DIAMOND, Jared Mason
DIAMOND, Jared M.
DIAMOND, Jared
Data de nascimento
1937-09-10
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
VS
País (no mapa)
USA
Local de nascimento
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Educação
Roxbury Latin School
Harvard University (BA | 1958)
University of Cambridge (PhD | Physiology and Biophysics | 1961)
Ocupações
evolutionary biologist
physiologist
biogeographer
Professor of Physiology
environmentalist
anthropologist (mostrar todos 9)
ornithologist
linguist
science writer
Relações
Cohen, Marie Nabel (wife)
Diamond, Josh (son)
Diamond, Max (son)
Organizações
American Philosophical Society
World Wildlife Fund
University of California, Los Angeles
The Skeptics Society
Prémios e menções honrosas
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
Lannan Literary Award (1999)
California Book Awards (1998)
Elliott Coues Award (1998)
Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Prize (1997) (mostrar todos 21)
Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2002)
Randi Award (1994)
Zoological Society of San Diego Conservation Medal (1993)
Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize (1992)
Tanner Lecturer (1992)
Archie Carr Medal (1989)
MacArthur Fellowship (1985)
Franklin L. Burr Award (1979)
Nathaniel Bowditch Prize (1976)
Kaiser Permanente/Golden Apple Teaching Award (1976)
Distinguished Achievement Award, 1975
Distinguished Teaching Award, 1972, 1973
Prize Fellowship, 1961
National Medal of Science (1999)
Kew International Medal, 2012

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Jared Diamond, professor of geography at the University of California at Los Angeles ... began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. [from Guns, Germs, and Steel (2005)]
JARED DIAMOND is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until recently he was Professor of Physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is the author of The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?; Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the widely acclaimed Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies, which also is the winner of Britain's 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.

Dr. Diamond is also the author of two other trade books: The Third Chimpanzee, which won The Los Angeles Times Book award for the best science book of 1992 and Britain's 1992 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize; and Why is Sex Fun? (ScienceMasters Series).

Dr. Diamond is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ("Genius Award"); research prizes of the American Physiological Society, National Geographic Society, and Zoological Society of San Diego; and many teaching awards and endowed public lectureships. In addition, he has been elected a member of all three of the leading national scientific/academic honorary societies (National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society).

His field experience includes 17 expeditions to New Guinea and neighboring islands, to study ecology and evolution of birds; rediscovery of New Guinea's long-lost goldenfronted bowerbird; other field projects in North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. As a conservationist he devised a comprehensive plan, almost all of which was subsequently implemented, for Indonesian New Guinea's national park system; numerous field projects for the Indonesian government and World Wildlife Fund; founding member of the board of the Society of Conservation Biology; member of the Board of Directors of World Wildlife Fund/USA.

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Interesting, but way too drawn out and dry. The idea of "Why did X develop in one part of the world but not another?" is neat, but he has a tendency to go off-topic and get into too much unrelated detail. Also, there is a strong bias towards New Guinea.
 
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kylecarroll | 372 outras críticas | Mar 7, 2024 |
A great book which however should be evaluated critically. Unfortunately the comparative history of civilisations is an area in which few others look, so Diamond ends up being the one key reference and taken as an absolute.

It is a must read but then also one must seek critical reviews as in many areas this book suggests a more idealist pessimistic view of sustainable civilisation than the other many historical examples that counter this.
 
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yates9 | 181 outras críticas | Feb 28, 2024 |
Much of what we take for granted about human sexuality - sort of monogamous, co-parenting, menopause, non-procreative sex - is downright weird by the standards of the rest of the animal kingdom. This book tries to look at why and how these practices evolved.

It's an interesting how others might see us account. The book dates from 1997 and it particularly shows when talking about sex that cannot result in procreation such as during pregnancy etc., without any mention of homosexuality in our and other species.… (mais)
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Obras
75
Also by
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Membros
45,263
Popularidade
#362
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
689
ISBN
387
Línguas
26
Marcado como favorito
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