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Title: Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to F
START DATE: 2/9/2005
START TIME: 7:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
Location Details:
FULL-STAND BY ONLY

Los Angeles Central Library
630 W. Fifth Street
Los Angeles , 90071
Major Cross Streets:
Fifth / Flower
Event Topic: environment
Event Type: presentation
Contact Name:
Contact Email: http://www.lapl.org/events/aloud/jan-feb_05/index.
Contact Phone: 213 / 228 - 7025
DESCRIPTION:
Jared Diamond was born in Boston to a physician father and a teacher/musician/linguist mother. After training in laboratory biological science at Harvard College, the University of Cambridge (England), and the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Munich (Germany), he became Professor of Physiology at UCLA Medical School in 1966. However, already while in his 20?s, he also developed a second parallel career in the ecology and evolution of New Guinea birds. That led him to explore some of the most remote parts of that great tropical island, and to rediscover New Guinea?s long-lost Golden-fronted Bowerbird. In his 50?s he gradually developed a third career in environmental history, sealed by his switching his appointment at age 65 to become Professor of Geography and of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA.

To academics, Jared Diamond is known for over 500 technical articles and seven books that have won him many high honors, ranging from the National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, and research prizes of the American Physiological Society, American Gastroenterological Society, and American Ornithologists Union, to election to the National Academy of Sciences. To the general public, he is famous for over a hundred articles in popular magazines (Discover, Natural History, Harper?s, Playboy), and for his mesmerizing public lectures, but especially for his three prize-winning books The Third Chimpanzee, Why Is Sex Fun?, Guns Germs, and Steel (winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction) and, to be published by Viking on January 3, 2005, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. The broad range of disciplines that he has mastered and weaves into his writing ? linguistics, genetics, animal behavior, molecular biology, and others ? caused a reviewer to write, ? ?Jared Diamond? is suspected of actually being the pseudonym for a committee of experts.? In his spare time he watches birds, plays and listens to music, and learns languages (he is currently learning his 12th). He is the father of 17-year-old twin sons who have informed much of his outlook on life.



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