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  <name><![CDATA[Jared Diamond]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Jared Mason Diamond is an author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and bio geographer. Dr. Diamond is also a medical researcher and professor of physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. His book &quot;Guns, Germs and Steel&quot; won a Pulitzer Prize and &quot;The Third Chimpanzee&quot; was a best-selling award winner. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Professor Diamond is a MacArthur Fellow who has published over 200 articles in Discover, Natural History, Nature and Geo magazines.

His books:

    * 1972 Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea, Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, No. 12, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 438.[2]
    * 1975 M. L. Cody and J. M. Diamond, eds. Ecology and Evolution of Communities. Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
    * 1979 J. M. Diamond and M. LeCroy. Birds of Karkar and Bagabag Islands, New Guinea. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 164:469-531
    * 1984 J. M. Diamond. The Avifaunas of Rennell and Bellona Islands. The Natural History of Rennell Islands, British Solomon Islands 8:127-168
    * 1986 J. M. Diamond and T. J. Case. eds. Community Ecology. Harper and Row, New York
    * 1986 B. Beehler, T. Pratt, D. Zimmerman, H. Bell, B. Finch, J. M. Diamond, and J. Coe. Birds of New Guinea. Princeton University Press,Princeton
    * 1992 The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, ISBN 0-060-98403-1
    * 1997 Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality, ISBN 0-465-03127-7
    * 1997 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W.W. Norton &amp; Co. ISBN 0-393-06131-0
    * 2001 The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, &amp; Biogeography (with Ernst Mayr), ISBN 0-195-14170-9
    * 2003 Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companion, ISBN 1-586-63863-7.
    * 2005 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Viking Books. ISBN 1-586-63863-7.

[edit] Selected Articles

    * Island Biogeography and the Design of Natural Reserves (1976), in Robert M. May's Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications, Blackwell Scientific Publications, pp. 163-186.
    * Ethnic differences. Variation in human testis size. (April 1986) Nature 320(6062):488-489 PubMed.
    * The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (May 1987) Discover pp. 64-66
    * Curse and Blessing of the Ghetto (March 1991) Discover, pp.60-66
    * Race Without Color (November 1994) Discover
    * The Curse of QWERTY (April 1997) Discover
    * Japanese Roots (June 1998) Discover
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