tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post4680229101198982607..comments2024-03-28T09:13:04.373-04:00Comments on KIKO'S HOUSE: Guns, Germs, Steel & LiesShaun Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14964214385216513188noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-27775271299599496762013-02-04T04:03:45.603-05:002013-02-04T04:03:45.603-05:00The book overlooks things like gene-culture co-evo...The book overlooks things like gene-culture co-evolution which could also contribute to population differences (eg. 'The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution').Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01133142115539961665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-27239992526706717672009-05-21T22:26:54.433-04:002009-05-21T22:26:54.433-04:00Diamond was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Pol...Diamond was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Polish-Jewish family. His father was a physician and his mother a teacher, musician and linguist. He attended the Roxbury Latin School, earned his A.B. degree from Harvard College in 1958 and his Ph.D. in physiology and membrane biophysics from the University of Cambridge in 1961. After graduating Cambridge he returned to Harvard as a Junior Fellow until 1965 and in 1968 became Professor of Physiology at UCLA Medical School. While in his twenties, he also developed a second, parallel, career in the ornithology of New Guinea, and has since undertaken numerous research New Guinea and nearby islands. In his fifties, Diamond gradually developed a third career in environmental history and become a Professor of Geography at UCLA, his current position.[1]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com