jared diamond http://wfpl.org en Learning From Past Societies to Improve the Future: Jared Diamond http://wfpl.org/post/learning-past-societies-improve-future-jared-diamond <p><a href="http://www.geog.ucla.edu/people/faculty.php?lid=3078&amp;display_one=1">Jared Diamond</a> spoke in Louisville on January 9, 2013 as featured guest at the <a href="http://www.kentuckyauthorforum.com/node/85">Kentucky Author Forum</a>, discussing in detail his latest book, <em><a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670024810,00.html">The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies</a></em>.&nbsp; Diamond is an author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and bio-geographer, as well as a medical researcher and professor of geography at UCLA.</p><p> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:05:26 +0000 Brad Yost 3585 at http://wfpl.org Learning From Past Societies to Improve the Future: Jared Diamond