Jared Diamond
Autor/a de Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Jared Diamond
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (2012) — Autor — 2,023 exemplars
The Third Chimpanzee for Young People: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (For Young People Series) (2014) 36 exemplars
Norse Greenland: A Controlled Experiment in Collapse--A Selection from Collapse (Penguin Tracks) (2012) 7 exemplars
By Jared M. Diamond - The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) 2 exemplars
The medicine inside the body is analytical (Chinese edidion) Pinyin: ti nei yao wu fen xi 2 exemplars
How to Tame a Wild Plant 1 exemplars
The Arrow of Disease 1 exemplars
The Evolution of Dragons 1 exemplars
Speaking with a Single Tongue 1 exemplars
Ten Thousand Years of Solitude 1 exemplars
Building to Code 1 exemplars
Sex and the Female Agenda 1 exemplars
How Africa Became Black 1 exemplars
Dining With Snakes 1 exemplars
The Return of Cholera 1 exemplars
Writing Right 1 exemplars
Father's Milk 1 exemplars
Race Without Color 1 exemplars
Question of Size 1 exemplars
Playing God at the Zoo 1 exemplars
Easter's End 1 exemplars
Empire of Uniformity 1 exemplars
Why Women Change 1 exemplars
The Best Way to Sell Sex 1 exemplars
The Curse of Qwerty 1 exemplars
Commentary: Kinship With the Stars 1 exemplars
Turning A Man 1 exemplars
Living Through the Donner Party 1 exemplars
Reversal of Fortune 1 exemplars
Viruși, arme și oțel. Soarta societăților umane 1 exemplars
Silent Partner (CD) 1 exemplars
Den mänskliga apans uppgång och fall en bok om människans historia och kultur i ett biologiskt… 1 exemplars
(Civilizaciones que surgen y caen 02) Por qué algunas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen 1 exemplars
"Easter Islands End" 1 exemplars
Great Minds of Science [sound recording] 1 exemplars
Laboratory, Field and Natural Experiments 1 exemplars
The Red Flag of Optimality 1 exemplars
Birds of Karkar and Bagabag Islands, New Guinea (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 164, article… (1979) 1 exemplars
Catherine the Great 1 exemplars
'How to get rich' in Edge.org June 1999 1 exemplars
Obres associades
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Col·laborador — 627 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Diamond, Jared Mason
- Altres noms
- DIAMOND, Jared Mason
DIAMOND, Jared M.
DIAMOND, Jared - Data de naixement
- 1937-09-10
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- VS
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Educació
- Roxbury Latin School
Harvard University (BA | 1958)
University of Cambridge (PhD | Physiology and Biophysics | 1961) - Professions
- evolutionary biologist
physiologist
biogeographer
Professor of Physiology
environmentalist
anthropologist (mostra-les totes 9)
ornithologist
linguist
science writer - Relacions
- Cohen, Marie Nabel (wife)
Diamond, Josh (son)
Diamond, Max (son) - Organitzacions
- American Philosophical Society
World Wildlife Fund
University of California, Los Angeles
The Skeptics Society - Premis i honors
- 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) (mostra-les totes 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 - Biografia breu
- 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.
http://edge.org/memberbio/jared_diamo...
Membres
Converses
AUGUST - SPOILERS - Collapse a The Green Dragon (octubre 2014)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Five star books (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Allie's Wishlist (1)
Disaster Books (1)
Reading list (1)
Matt (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 75
- També de
- 9
- Membres
- 45,263
- Popularitat
- #362
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 689
- ISBN
- 387
- Llengües
- 26
- Preferit
- 168