Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond (September 10th 1937 -) is a writer, evolutionary Biologiste , Physiologiste and American biogéographe .

Professor of Geography at the University of Los Angeles (UCLA), it is especially known for his popularizing works scientific: Of the inequality among the companies (Price Pulitzer 1998) and Effrondrement (translated into French in 2006).

Biography

Jared Diamond was born with Boston on September 10th, 1937. Graduate of the University of Harvard in 1958, it obtains his thesis in 1961 at the University of Cambridge in Physiologie. He is named professor of physiology to the " Medical UCLA School" (Medical school of the UCLA) in 1966. It then begins a second career of biologist by studying the ecology and the evolution of the birds of New Guinea. Then starting from the end of the year 1980, it is interested in the history of the environment and becomes professor of geography to the UCLA, posts that it always currently occupies. Author of many scientific publications, it received in 1999 prestigious the " National Medal off Science " American.

Principal works

Of inequality among Companies ( Guns, Germs, and Steel , Price Pulitzer 1998), which postulates that the current international situation is the result of the processes started during the modern period, i.e. since 13 000 years, during which civilizations which knew a advanced level of “human development” started to be essential on simpler civilizations everywhere in the world. The objective of Diamond is to explain why these advanced civilizations developed only in Eurasia; without to call upon the ethnocentric myths, and even by refuting them.

It publishes in 2004 Collapse (translated under the title Effondrement. How the companies decide on their disappearance or their survival in May 2006), work in which he recalls how certain civilizations, such those of the Easter Island, the Mayas or the Viking S of the Greenland, are the cause of their own loss because of their action on their environment. He also studies companies, the such Icelandic, the Japan board or the Tikopiens, which survived in spite of enormous environmental difficulties and in the car of the conclusions for our modern societies. -->

Works

Why the love is a pleasure, evolution of human sexuality , (Hachette Literature, 1999), ISBN 201235288X ( Why is sex fun. The evolution off human sexuality , 1997)
the Third Chimpanzee, Test on the evolution and future of the human animal , (Gallimard, NRF tests, 2000) ISBN 2070753522. ( The Third Chimpanzee. The Future Evolution and the off the Animal Human , 1992)
Of the inequality among the companies, Test on the man and environment in history , (Gallimard, NRF tests, 2000) ISBN 2070753514. ( Guns, Germs, and Steel. The Fate off Human Societies , 1997,0393317552)
Collapse. How the companies decide on their disappearance or their survival , (Gallimard, NRF tests, 2006) ISBN 2070776727. ( Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail gold Succeed , 2004 ISBN 0140279512)

External bonds

Maintenance on the work " Collapse"
Site of Diamond at the department of geography, UCLA
Biography
Articles on the person

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