Professor JARED DIAMOND (Geography and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles): It's a pleasure to be with you.

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The brilliant UCLA scholar Jared Diamond has even opined, quite seriously, that what we are seeing is accelerated evolution.

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Shortlisted authors include Jared Diamond, vying for an unprecedented third win, and Vivienne Parry, who has made the cut with her first book.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Titles collide for Aventis Prize

Lorenz mentioned these four: Silent Sprint by Rachael Carlson , Collapse by Jared Diamond, 1984 by George Orwell, and Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan.

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Mr Romney noted that one book he had read recently, Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel (utterly brilliant, by the way) put economic differences down to geography.

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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Researcher Jared Diamond, the author of "The World Until Yesterday, " says Congress could learn a lesson from tribal societies: Listen to your elders.

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In the late 1990s Jared Diamond and David Landes tackled head-on the most vexing questions: why did Europe discover modern economic growth and why is its spread so limited?

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