Jared M. Diamond, Ph.D.
jdiamond@geog.ucla.edu

Professor, Geography and Physiology

Faculty Member Since: 1966
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, England

Research Interests:
Regulation of nutrient transport; integrative and evolutionary physiology

Recent Awards:
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, 1998
Japan's Cosmos Prize, 1998

Representative Publications:
J. M. Diamond. Logic of Life: The Challenge of Integrative Physiology. In: Evolutionary Physiology (D. Noble and C.A.R. Boyd, eds.), Oxford University Press, (1993), pp.89-111.

S. L. Pimm, J. Diamond, T.M. Reed, G.J. Russell and J. Verner. (1993). Times to extinction of small populations of large birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.) 90:10871-10875.

S.M. Secor, E.D. Stein and J. M. Diamond.(1994). Rapid up-regulation of snake intestine in response to feeding: a new model of intestinal adaptation. Am. J. Physiol. 266(4):G695-G705.

Diamond, J.M. (1999). Dirty eating for healthy living. Nature 400: 120-121.

Diamond, J.M. (1999). Rivers in the sky. Discover 20, no. 3, pp. 94-102.

Diamond, J.M. (2000). Blitzkrieg against moas. Science 287: 2170-2121.

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