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SUMMARY:Growing older in yesterdays world - Professor Jared Diamond\, UCLA
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CONTACT:Dr Dick Fenner
DESCRIPTION:Jared Diamond will draw extensively from his new book The Worl
 d Until Yesterday\, and provide  an epic journey into our rapidly receding
  past. Diamond reveals how tribal societies offer an extraordinary window 
 into how our ancestors lived for millions of years – until virtually yest
 erday\, in evolutionary terms – and how they can provide unique\, often o
 verlooked insights into human nature.\n \nDrawing on his own fieldwork spa
 nning nearly five decades working and living in New Guinea\, as well as ev
 idence from Inuit\, Amazonian Indians and other cultures\, Diamond will ex
 plore how tribal peoples approach essential human problems\, from childrea
 ring to old age to conflict resolution to health\, and discover that we ha
 ve much to learn from traditional ways of life.\n \nHe will unearth remark
 able findings: from the reasons why modern afflictions like diabetes\, obe
 sity and hypertension are largely non-existent in tribal societies\, to th
 e surprising cognitive benefits of multilingualism. As Diamond will remind
  us\, the West achieved global dominance due to specific environmental and
  technological advantages\, but Westerners do not necessarily have superio
 r ideas about how to raise children\, care for the elderly\, or simply liv
 e well. \n\nJared Diamond is an American scientist and author best known f
 or his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991/2004)\, Guns\, Ger
 ms\, and Steel (1997)\, and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succ
 eed (2005). Originally trained in physiology\, he has developed careers in
  ornithology and ecology\, specialising in New Guinea  as well as in  envi
 ronmental history and he is  Professor of Geography at UCLA  He was awarde
 d the National Medal of Science in 1999  and he has also received a Pullit
 zer Prize and Royal Society Prize for Books.   His new book called “The 
 world until yesterday”. \n\nPhoto credit Jochen Braun\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 0\, Engineering Department\, Trumpington Street
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