Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur fellow Jared Diamond, a professor of geography at UCLA, will appear at Royce Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. to discuss his new book. "The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?" provides a picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years — a past that has mostly vanished — and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. Diamond draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people and others. He is also the author of the acclaimed mega-bestsellers "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" and "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies." Diamond's presentation, sponsored by the Friends of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, is free, but reservations are required: Go to http://jareddiamond.eventbrite.com or R.S.V.P. to 424-214-3851 or to patty@friendsofsemelinstitute.org.
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Jared Diamond to discuss his new book at Royce Hall
Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur fellow Jared Diamond, a professor of geography at UCLA, will appear at Royce Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. to discuss his new book. "The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?" provides a picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years — a past that has mostly vanished — and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. Diamond draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people and others. He is also the author of the acclaimed mega-bestsellers "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" and "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies." Diamond's presentation, sponsored by the Friends of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, is free, but reservations are required: Go to http://jareddiamond.eventbrite.com or R.S.V.P. to 424-214-3851 or to patty@friendsofsemelinstitute.org.
