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* Jared Diamond ( 1954 ) – noted biologist, author and Pulitzer Prize-winner for Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond gives an extensive look into the collapse of the ancient Easter Islanders in his book Collapse.
Jared Diamond argues that organized religion served to provide a bond between unrelated individuals who would otherwise be more prone to enmity.
The Komodo dragon may have evolved to feed on the extinct dwarf elephant Stegodon that once lived on Flores, according to evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond.
Jared Diamond traces the spread of cultivated emmer wheat starting in the Fertile Crescent about 8500 BC, reaching Greece, Cyprus and India by 6500 BC, Egypt shortly after 6000 BC, and Germany and Spain by 5000 BC.
Scientists such as Jared Diamond in The Third Chimpanzee, and Morris Goodman of Wayne State University in Detroit suggest that the bonobo and common chimpanzee are so closely related to humans that their genus name also should be classified with the human genus Homo: Homo paniscus, Homo sylvestris, or Homo arboreus.
Key proponents of this notion have included Ellen Churchill Semple, Ellsworth Huntington, Thomas Griffith Taylor and possibly Jared Diamond, although his status as an environmental determinist is debated.
The geographer Jared Diamond has calculated that if the application of jus soli since 1850 were abolished, 60 % of Americans and 80 % of Argentinians would lose their citizenship, and 25 % of British and French.
This assessment of the danger posed by cassowaries has been repeated in print by authors including Gregory S. Paul ( 1988 ) and Jared Diamond ( 1997 ).
Key proponents of this notion have included Ellen Churchill Semple, Ellsworth Huntington, Thomas Griffith Taylor, and possibly Jared Diamond or Philip M. Parker.
* Patrick V. Kirch, " Natural Experiments of History " anthology edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, Chapter one " Controlled Comparison and Polynesian Cultural Evolution " by Patrick V. Kirch, pages 28 & 29, ( The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England ), 2010.
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 ).
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.
In addition, Jared Diamond has blamed a decline in the availability of wild foods, particularly animal resources.
Jared Diamond believes the alphabet was consciously designed, citing as evidence the possibility that the letters with the fewest strokes may have been the most frequent.
Jared Diamond described a hunt by a tribe in New Guinea, in which the day's total bag was two baby birds (" weighing about one-third of an ounce each "), a few frogs, and a lot of mushrooms.
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The post office's most interesting feature is a mural installed in 1938 by the noted artist Jared Blanford French ( 1905 – 1988 ) entitled " Mealtime, The Early Coal Miners ," one of more than 1, 200 works of art commissioned by the U. S. Treasury between the years 1934 and 1943 through a program intended to embellish Federal buildings and encourage the arts during the Great Depression.
* Jared Klimer ( Pamela Segall Adlon ) – is the arrogant son of George and Pristine and brother to Debbie.
In the second round, Henman was defeated by American Jared Palmer in four sets ; 4 – 6, 7 – 6, 3 – 6, 1 – 6.
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