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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companion

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From Wikipedia
Jared Mason Diamond (born 10 September 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997). He also received the National Medal of Science in 1999. Diamond was born in Boston of Polish-Jewish heritage, to a physician father and a teacher/musician/linguist mother. After attending The Roxbury Latin School, he earned a BA degree from Harvard in 1958 and his PhD in physiology and membrane biophysics from Cambridge University in 1961. During 1962-1966, he returned to Harvard as a Junior Fellow. He became a professor of physiology at UCLA Medical School in 1966. While in his twenties, he also developed a second, parallel, career in the ecology and evolution of New Guinea birds, and has since led numerous trips to explore New Guinea and nearby islands. In his fifties, Diamond gradually developed a third career in environmental history, becoming a professor of geography and of environmental health sciences at UCLA, his current position. (more)

Jared Diamond: Easter's End
In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism.
Are we about to follow their lead?

Jared Diamond: Why Societies Collapse

Jared Diamond: The Worst Mistake
in the History of the Human Race
To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our earth isn't the center of the universe but merely one of billions of heavenly bodies. From biology we learned that we weren't specially created by God but evolved along with millions of other species. Now archaeology is demolishing another sacred belief: that human history over the past million years has been a long tale of progress. In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence.

Why Did Human History Unfold Differently On Different Continents For The Last 13,000 Years?

Lessons from Lost Worlds

The Ends of the World as We Know Them

Jared Diamond - How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed - Long Now Foundation

Jared Diamond - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Dr. Jared Diamond Lecture

“The official religions and patriotic fervor of many states make their troops willing to fight suicidally. The latter willingness is one so strongly programmed into us citizens of modern states, by our schools and churches and governments, that we forget what a radical break it makes with previous human history. .... Naturally, what makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy. Fanaticism in war, of the type that drove recorded Christian and Islamic conquests, was probably unknown on Earth until chiefdoms and especially states emerged within the last 6,000 years.”

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Jared Diamond to Speak About the Challenges of Globalization

UCLA Department of Geography

Biography at The Edge

JARED DIAMOND
Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, is the epitome of the celebrity scientist. His lectures routinely draw thousands of rapt listeners, who walk away with a deeper and more nuanced view of the development of human civilization and the continued gulf between rich and poor in the global community.

Jared M. Diamond at NCSE

Jared Diamond’s Contention Regarding the Predetermination of Societies Due to Environmental Pressures
by Giovanni JRC

When Things Fall Apart
by LEV GROSSMAN

Help for a Planet Under Siege
by ADI IGNATIUS
I probably shouldn't say this, but there is always the risk in preparing a big report on the environment that no one will read it. Not that people don't care about the issues. But after years of listening to the debates, many of us suffer from "environment fatigue": we get the big picture (pollution bad, clean energy good) but are frustrated that no one seems able to do much to help.

Jared Diamond on the Paula Gordon show

Why Societies Collapse: Jared Diamond at Princeton University

Guns, Germs and Steel on PBS

Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.