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Article: Natural foces that shaped human fate.(Commentary)(Book Review)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 17, 1997
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Serious, groundbreaking biological studies of human history only seem to come along once every generation or so. Many authors have the ambition to attempt such works, but only a rare few, such as C.D. Darlington and William McNeill, have the extraordinary erudition and judgment to pull it off without sliding into superficiality and plain silliness. Now Jared Diamond, professor of physiology at the University of California at Los Angeles' school of medicine, must be added to their select number.
Based on original and magisterial research, Mr. Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" tackles some of the most fundamental questions of human experience: Why did ...
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Article: Pulitzer Prize-winning Ecology Expert Jared Diamond ...
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...Coe College issued the following news release: Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Guns, Germs ... Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Sinclair Auditorium. Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Guns, Germs ...
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