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5 unusual facts about Jared Diamond


Certified wood

Some commentators, including Jared Diamond, have suggested that many competing standards were set up by logging companies specifically aiming to confuse consumers with less rigorously enforced but similarly named competing standards.

Integral City

; and bio-social-evolutionist dynamics of Jared Diamond, Spencer Wells, Howard Bloom, Elisabet Sahtouris and Barbara Marx Hubbard.

Iva annua

As the author Jared Diamond notes, the edible parts contain 32 percent protein and 45 percent oil.

Salvadori's Teal

Diamond, Jared M. (1972): AviBirds of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea.

State of the Planet

It includes interviews with many leading scientists, such as Edward O. Wilson and Jared Diamond.


Fayu people

Two books have been written about living among them by Sabine Kuegler and the group are used as an example of a band type society in Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.

The Planet

It includes interviews with 29 environmental scientists and experts including Dr. Stephen Peake, Herman Daly, Lester Brown, Gretchen Daily, Mathis Wackernagel, Norman Myers, Jill Jäger, George Monbiot, Robert Costanza, Will Steffen, and Jared Diamond.


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