Who is Jared Diamond
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A Selection of Quotes from Jared Diamond
"The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. "
"I've set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13,000 years. Why did history take such different evolutionary courses for peoples of different continents? This problem has fascinated me for a long time, but it's now ripe for a new synthesis because of recent advances in many fields seemingly remote from history, including molecular biology, plant and animal genetics and biogeography, archaeology, and linguistics."
Guns, Germs and Steel
A fascinating book, and now also a TV series.
For more information on Jared Diamond and the book "Guns, Germs and Steel" check out the offical website. The multi-million selling book is now a TV series on PBS with a website that is very informative and interactive.Both the book and the show cover answers to such questions as:
Why were Europeans the ones to conquer so much of our planet?
Why didn't the Chinese, or the Inca, become masters of the globe instead?
Why did cities first evolve in the Middle East?
Why did farming never emerge in Australia?
And why are the tropics now the capital of global poverty?
The website has resources including a reading list and other websites to check out if you want to further your knowledge. The interactive world map is also a enjoyable section.
Jared Diamond books at Amazon
Jared Diamond Links
- A Talk By Jared Diamond
- Why Did Human History Unfold Differently On Different Continents For The Last 13,000 Years?
- Laying A Foundation For Human History
- Bill Gates on Jared Diamond
- Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?
- "What I'm going to suggest is a road map of factors in failures of group decision making. I'll divide the answers into a sequence of four somewhat fuzzily delineated categories...."
- UCLA Department of Geography
- Jared Diamond's bio from UCLA.
- What's Your Consumption Factor?
- An opinion column written by Jared Diamond for the New York Times.
- Annals of Anthropology
- "Vengeance Is Ours" appearing in The New Yorker
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared M. Diamond
The Development of an Extraordinary Species. We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created breathtaking works of art -- while chimps remain animals concerned primarily with the basic necessities of survival. What is it about that two percen...1 point
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller with over 1.5 million copies sold is now a major PBS TV show. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series.1 point
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality (Science Masters) by Jared Diamond
To us humans the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be?Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even when the female cant be fertilized (for example, because she is already pregnant, post-menopausal, or between fertile cycles). A human female doesnt know her precise time...0 points
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?
As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series...
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susannaduffy
Oct 10, 2010 @ 3:15 am | delete
- Jared Diamond is also an excellent writer (something not many scientists can manage) and I believe The Third Chimpanzee should be compulsory reading in schools
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