Jared Diamond

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Jared M. Diamond "of Los Angeles, California, is a conservation biologist, a professor of geography at the University of California in Los Angeles, and a research associate in ornithology at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and at the American Museum of Natural History. He has worked as a consultant in conservation and national park planning in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Indonesia. Dr. Diamond's four books for a popular audience are The Third Chimpanzee; Guns, Germs, and Steel; Why Is Sex Fun?; and Collapse. He has published hundreds of research papers on a broad range of scientific topics. A fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has been awarded a Burr Medal from the National Geographic Society, a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize, Japan's Cosmos Prize, Britain's Science Book Prize (twice), the National Medal of Science, and the Tyler Prize. He received a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from Cambridge University in England." [1]

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  2. Advisory Board, Earth Institute, accessed August 5, 2009.
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