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  2. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Wikipedia

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    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time."

  3. Creeping normality - Wikipedia

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    American scientist Jared Diamond used creeping normality in his 2005 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Prior to releasing his book, Diamond explored this theory while attempting to explain why, in the course of long-term environmental degradation, Easter Island natives would, seemingly irrationally, chop down the last tree ...

  4. Jared Diamond - Wikipedia

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    Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) [1] is an American scientist, historian, and author. In 1985 he received a MacArthur Genius Grant , and he has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books .

  5. Collapsology - Wikipedia

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    It also developed into a movement when Jared Diamond's text Collapse was published. [2] ... in terms of network theory, energy economics and complexity theory. For ...

  6. Guns, Germs, and Steel - Wikipedia

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    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (subtitled A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years in Britain) is a 1997 transdisciplinary nonfiction book by the American author Jared Diamond.

  7. Scientists release detailed map of everything in the universe

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    The majority of the results fit perfectly with the currently accepted best theory of the universe. But there are also signs of a crack - one that has been suggested in the past.

  8. Assembly rules - Wikipedia

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    The rules are generally regarded as hypotheses that need to be tested on an individual basis, not as accepted conclusions. This is the reason why Diamond's results sparked nearly two decades worth of controversy in the literature, from the late seventies through the late nineties and is considered a turning point in community ecology. [4]

  9. Max Thieriot Addresses Jared Padalecki’s Future in the ‘Fire ...

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    Max Thieriot can't give too much away about how long Jared Padalecki will stick around on Fire Country — but it sounds like fans are in for a wild ride amid those spinoff rumors.. During an ...