| LC control no. | n 79147898 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Diamond, Jared M. |
| Variant(s) | Diamond, Jared, 1937- |
| Other standard no. | 0000000110309413 90709225 Q205772 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1937-09-10 |
| Place of birth | Boston (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Geography Biogeography Evolution (Biology) Ecology Physiology Birds--New Guinea |
| Affiliation | University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Geography University of California, Los Angeles. Fielding School of Public Health David Geffen School of Medicine. Department of Physiology |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers University and college faculty members Geographers Ornithologists Ecologists Authors |
| Found in | His Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea, 1972. Community ecology, c1986: CIP t.p. (Jared Diamond) His The third chimpanzee, c1992: CIP t.p. (Jared Diamond) data sheet (b. 9-10-37) British Library authority file, viewed 28 November 2019 (hdg.: Diamond, Jared M. (Jared Mason), 1937- ) Upheaval : turning points for nations in crisis, 2019: title page (Jared Diamond) book jacket (Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles) UCLA Department of Geography WWW site, viewed August 29, 2024 faculty (Jared Diamond; Ph.D., University of Cambridge, England; professor; research interests in biogeography, and geography and human society; teaches classes in world regions and past societies; won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1998) UCLA Fielding School of Public Health WWW site, viewed August 29, 2024 faculty (Jared Diamond; Department of Environmental Health Sciences; professor of geography and physiology; research lies between molecular biology and evolutionary biology and focuses on the evolution design of biological capacities through natural selection) Personal website, viewed August 29, 2024 home (Jared Diamond) about me (professional time divided between teaching geography at UCLA, field research on the birds of New Guinea and the Southwest Pacific Islands, writing books about human societies, and promoting sustainable environmental policies; born in 1937 in Boston, lives in Los Angeles; knows 12 languages, including English, Italian, Russian, German, Fore; Ph.D., Physiology, Cambridge UK; went to New Guinea in 1964 which started second career of ecology and evolutionary biology; started at UCLA as a professor of physiology in 1966; at the age of 65 ended career in laboratory science; and devoted half of career to geography/comparative environmental history and half of career to evolutionary biology) <http://www.jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Welcome.html> International Cosmos Prize WWW site, viewed August 29, 2024 (Jared Mason Diamond; born September 10, 1937; B.A., Biochemical Sciences, Harvard College, 1958; Ph.D., Physiology, University of Cambridge, England, 1961; professor of Physiology at UCLA 196[6]-2002; professor of Geography at UCLA, 2002- ) <https://www.expo-cosmos.or.jp/english/cosmos/jyusyou/1998.html> |
| Associated language | eng rus ger ita paa |
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