JARED DIAMOND
recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant
Pulitzer Prize for "Guns, Germs, and Steel:  The Fates of Human Society"

Dec. 6 (Monday), 7:30 pm, Campus Center, UH Manoa
"Why did human history unfold differently on different continents for the last 13,000 years?"

Dec.7 (Tuesday), 3-5 pm, Architecture 205, UH Manoa
"Conservation Biology in New Guinea"

Other Books:  "The Third Chimpanzee" and "Why Is Sex Fun?"

Jared Diamond believes that chance and the diverse opportunities of geography explain the major (continental scale) differences in human history, and not genetic differences among dispersed human populations. Numerous web pages praise or criticize him. See, for example, 

http://www.davidlavin.com/diamond.html (praise) 
or http://lrainc.com/swtaboo/stalkers/ml_ggs.html (opposition). 

Better yet, type "Jared Diamond" into your favorite search engine!

Co-sponsor: the Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Program (of UH Manoa)

Sponsor:  University of Hawai'i Distinguished Lecture Series; http://www.hawaii.edu/dls 
To contact the DLS committee, email David Baker at bakerd@hawaii.edu