For free-living organisms, diversity ecology features many strong conceptual frameworks including Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson's theory of island biogeography, Jared Diamond's assembly rules and, more recently, null models such as Stephen Hubbell's unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography.

But as Walker ( 2006 ) points out, it has failed to offer “ compelling counter-narratives ” to “ widely influential and popular yet deeply flawed and unapologetic neo-Malthusian rants such as Robert Kaplan's ( 1994 ) ' The coming anarchy ' and Jared Diamond's ( 2005 ) Collapse ” ( 385 ).

This has been challenged in later work however as the exclusive cause ( biologically trained Jared Diamond's Collapse ( 2005 ); or more modern work on Easter Island ).

It was Jared Diamond's third nomination for the prize, having won twice previously.

Also in 2005, Coyote served as the narrator for several prominent projects including the documentary film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and the National Geographic-produced PBS documentary based on Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel.

For contrast, Jared Diamond's 2005 book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, focuses on environmental mismanagement as a cause of collapse.

The introduction of disease can also play a role and has worked to the advantages of both lesser technologically advanced and more technologically advanced societies, e. g. negatively for indigenous American civilizations and positively for Africans and some others < ref > See, for example, Jared Diamond's < i > Guns, Germs, and Steel </ i >.

Jared Diamond's new book, Collapse, confronts this contradiction head-on.

Jared Diamond's thesis that Easter Island society collapsed in isolation entirely due to environmental damage is contested by some ethnographers and archaeologists who argue that the introduction of diseases carried by European colonizers and slave raiding, which devastated the population in the 19th century, had a much greater social impact than environmental decline and that introduced animals, first rats and then sheep, were greatly responsible for the island's loss of native flora which came closest to deforestation as late as 1930 – 1960.

Jared Diamond's 2005 book Collapse discussed MSC and the similar Forest Stewardship Council as good examples of collaboration among environmentalists and businesses for a sustainable economy.

Mangareva's history and its ancient links with the Pitcairn and Henderson islands is well-covered in Jared Diamond's book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed ( 2005 ).

Humans are very similar to other primates in their propensity towards intra-species violence ; Jared Diamond's The Third Chimpanzee ( ISBN 0-09-980180-9 ) estimates that 64 % of hunter-gather societies engage in warfare every two years.

Comparisons have been made between this book and Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed which both cover similar subject matter with " a cautious problem-solving approach " and come to similar conclusions.

Jared Diamond gives an extensive look into the collapse of the ancient Easter Islanders in his book Collapse.

The book begins with the journey of Jared and his people from the tumultuous wickedness of the Tower of Babel to " the promised land.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ).

Unable to book shows anywhere else, the Bloodhound Gang first performed an extra room at Evil Jared Hasselhoff's house, in exchange for Schlitz, Marlboros, and a chance to hand out their first demo tape, entitled Just Another Demo.

In his popular science book Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond describes the disc as an example of a technological advancement that did not become widespread because it was made at the wrong time in history, and contrasts this with Gutenberg's printing press.

The first chapter of the book is narrated by Jared, a ghost of a friend of the character's who died of leukemia at a young age.

In his book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond argues that Europeans and East Asians benefited from an advantageous geographical location that afforded them a head start in the Neolithic Revolution.

Author Jared Diamond argues in his 1991 non-fiction book, The Third Chimpanzee, that Châtelperron may represent a community of Neanderthals who had to some extent adopted the culture of the modern Homo sapiens that had established themselves in the surrounding area, which would account for the signs of a hybrid culture found at the site.

* Crunch ( book ), by Jared Bernstein

* All Together Now ( book ), a book by Jared Bernstein

* Jared Kincaid, from The Dresden Files book series.

Another supporter of competitive replacement is Jared Diamond who points out in his book The Third Chimpanzee that the genocidal replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans is similar to modern human patterns of behavior that occur whenever people with advanced technology invade the territory of less advanced people.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed ( also titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive ) is a 2005 book by Jared M. Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at University of California, Los Angeles.

This approach has been attributed to American environmental historians Webb and Turner and, more recently to Jared Diamond in his book " Guns, Germs and Steel ", where the presence or absence of disease vectors and resources such as plants and animals that are amenable to domestication that may not only stimulate the development of human culture but even determine, to some extent, the direction of that development.

* In the 2004 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed ( Viking Adult, ISBN 0-670-03337-5 ), Jared Diamond suggests that Sir Martin's hopes of worldwide cooperation in avoiding extinction scenarios may be in vain.

In 1975 Jared Diamond suggested some " rules " for the design of protected areas, based on Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson's book The Theory of Island Biogeography.

Fate ( Jared Stevens ) is a fictional character that has appeared in various comic book series published by DC Comics.

The Anna Karenina principle was popularized by Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs and Steel.

The Massachusetts-based education services company-widely-known for its test-prep courses, books, and student survey-based college rankings-profiles Professors Richard Capobianco ( Philosophy ) and Jared Green ( English ) in its new book, The Best 300 Professors ( Random House / Princeton Review ).

* ABC Radio Transcripts: Why Societies Collapse: Jared Diamond at Princeton University

These arguments for climatic determinism are today echoed by the work of scholars such as Jared Diamond who suggests in his work Collapse that climatic and environmental determinants have been the central factor determining the rise and fall of empires.

* Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond

* Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed ( 2005 ), ch.

* Diamond, Jared, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed ( New York: Viking, 2005 ) ISBN 0-670-03337-5

* Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed ( 2005 ), Ch.

* Jared Diamond Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 2005 Viking Press ISBN 0-670-03337-5, 2006 Penguin ISBN 0-14-027951-2

* Collapse by Jared Diamond, which details the historic deforestation of Easter Island along with other accounts of how societies collapse or succeed

* Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond