The Guardian: Afternoon Update: Brethren church denies paying far-right activists to target election; Sydney Swans latest; and diamond-soled shoes
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Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist, historian, and author. He has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books, most notably Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received multiple awards, including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. In 2005, Diamond was ranked ninth on a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.
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culture · American scientist, historian, and author (born 1937) · physiologist · geographer · writer · university teacher · ornithologist · ecologist · also Jared Diamond, Jared Mason Diamond, Jared M. Diamond, Diamond
Born 10 September 1937 · Q205772
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2026· 2 entries
The Observer: Jared Diamond: ‘I find life fascinating. I want to keep going’
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2019· 4 entries
Awarded Blue Planet Prize (2019).
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The Guardian: Brexit too complicated for referendum, says Jared Diamond
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The Guardian: Upheaval by Jared Diamond review – how nations cope with crisis
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The Guardian: Jared Diamond: So how do states recover from crises? Same way as people do
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Humanist of the Year (2016).
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Jared Diamond: ‘Humans, 150,000 years ago, wouldn’t figure on a list of the five most interesting species on Earth’
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2013· 6 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Agriculture (2013).
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The Guardian: Science Weekly podcast: Jared Diamond on traditional societies
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The Guardian: Jared Diamond in row over claim tribal peoples live in 'state of constant war'
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The Guardian: Jared Diamond: what the tribes of New Guinea have to teach us
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Published “Executive Functions” in Annual Review of Psychology — cited 11,146 times.
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The Observer reported that the lawsuit "was withdrawn by mutual consent after the sudden death of their lawyer
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2012· 2 entries
Diamond asks what the western world can learn from traditional societies
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Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,668 times.
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2010· 2 entries
Published “Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California’s Tobacco Control Program” in Journal of the American Statistical Association — cited 4,500 times.
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Diamond co-edited (with James Robinson) Natural Experiments of History, a collection of seven case studies illustrating the multidisciplinary and comparative approach to the study of history that he advocates
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2008· 1 entry
Diamond published an article in The New Yorker entitled "Vengeance Is Ours", describing the role of revenge in tribal warfare in Papua New Guinea
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Dickson Prize in Science (2007).
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Awarded Environment Book Prize (2007).
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2006· 1 entry
The Guardian: Diamond in the running for third Aventis win
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2005· 4 entries
The Guardian: Observer review: Collapse by Jared Diamond
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The Guardian: Review: Collapse by Jared Diamond
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Examines a range of past societies in an attempt to identify why they either collapsed or continued to thrive and considers what contemporary societies can learn from these historical examples
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Diamond was ranked ninth on a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy of the world's top 100 public intellectuals
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Groeneveld Award (2004).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2001).
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1999· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1999).
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1998· 5 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Guns, Germs, and Steel (1998).
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1998).
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Awarded Elliott Coues Award (1998).
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Awarded International Cosmos Prize (1998).
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Awarded Royal Society Science Books Prize for Guns, Germs, and Steel (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
Diamond discusses evolutionary factors underlying features of human sexuality that are generally taken for granted but that are highly unusual among our animal relatives
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1985).
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Received a MacArthur Genius Grant and in 1999, the National Medal of Science, an honor bestowed by the President of the United States and the National Science Foundation
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1984· 1 entry
Published “Financial Intermediation and Delegated Monitoring” in The Review of Economic Studies — cited 5,340 times.
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1983· 1 entry
Published “Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity” in Journal of Political Economy — cited 6,088 times.
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1977· 1 entry
“[..] the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.”
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1968· 1 entry
Became a professor of physiology at UCLA Medical School
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1961· 1 entry
Studied at Trinity College, Doctor of Philosophy (1958–1961).
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1958· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard College, Bachelor of Arts (1958).
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1937· 1 entry
Born 1937-09-10.
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