Jared Diamond's research while affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles and other places

... At the day of birth, the pups from several dams were sorted to standardize litters to eight animals (four males and four females). Control pups were housed in an environmentally controlled facility on a 12:12 h light:dark cycle and were fed a standard laboratory diet and water ad libitum as recommended in [161]. ...

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Long-Term Transcriptomic Changes and Cardiomyocyte Hyperpolyploidy after Lactose Intolerance in Neonatal Rats

... The digestion cost expressed as SDA coefficient was within values described in juvenile snakes and lizards with values ranging between 12 and 18% (Andrade et al., 1997;Christel et al., 2007). However, some studies have reported higher values for other tortoise and turtle species from a minimum of 16% to a maximum of 30% (Hailey, 1998;Secor and Diamond, 1999;Pan et al., 2004. No effect was observed on the heat increment of any of the experimental diets in the present study. ...

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Starch and fiber intake effects on energy metabolism, growth, and carapacial scute pyramiding of red-footed tortoise hatchlings (Chelonoidis carbonaria)

... During the post-glacial global warming period, agricultural economies featuring crop cultivation and animal domestication began to appear (Bellwood and Diamond, 2005;Bar-Yosef, 2011;Fuller et al., 2014). The transformation from reliance on hunting-gathering to farming economies is one of the most phenomenal changes in the history of human civilization (Childe, 1936;Diamond, 2002). ...

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Changes of Neolithic subsistence in south Hangzhou Bay coast, eastern China: An adaptive strategy to landscape processes

... New Zealand is very rugged and mountainous, about 270,000 km 2 in area, and its colonization was thought to be relatively slow. But recently it has been confidently argued that the first people arrived no more than 800 years ago, promptly discovered all sources of toolstone, and killed all the moas within a few decades (Diamond 2000;Holdaway and Jacomb 2000;McGlone and Wilmshurst 1999). The first sites made by these swift colonizers are the large ones with mega-moa bones in them, not the once-proposed low-density scatter of nearly invisible sites created by people slowly establishing themselves. ...

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Haynes 2002 Chapter 1 How we thought about Clovis

... An epidemic increase of patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) has been observed in the United States and most of the Western countries over the last decade [1,2]. Diabetes is associated with a two-to fourfold higher risk for myocardial infarction and death [3]. ...

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Coronary anatomy and left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with type 2 diabetes admitted for elective coronary angiography

... Taiwan is one of the focal points of research on prehistoric cultural dispersal across Asia. The most prominent model for the origin of Austronesian-speaking peoples is the so-called Austronesian expansion, which grounds on the language-farming hypothesis and identifies the island as the origin of the spread of people, languages, technologies, material culture and agriculture across Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, Island Oceania and to Madagascar from around 2500-2000 BCE (Bellwood, 1984(Bellwood, /85, 1997(Bellwood, , 2005(Bellwood, , 2017Diamond, 2001;Diamond and Bellwood, 2003). The simultaneous dispersal of cultural traits and agriculture from Taiwan as suggested by the model has been mainly deduced from linguistic evidence (Bellwood, 2005;Blust, 1995Blust, , 1999Pawley, 2003). ...

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Archaeobotanical evidence of plant cultivation from the Sanbaopi site in south-western Taiwan during the Late Neolithic and Metal Age

... The Buff-banded Rail occurred in low numbers during surveys and the Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus) was only seen incidentally in low elevation areas within NPSA and close to developed areas outside the park. Both species, which inhabit and forage on the forest floor, may be vulnerable to depredation by feral and domestic cats and dogs (Foin and Brenchley-Jackson 1991, Mack et al. 2000, Diamond 2007). Likewise, the effect of the Norway Rat (Rattus norvegicus) and Black Rat (Rattus rattus) on all bird species in American Samoa is unknown, but there is ample evidence rats can have devastating effects on landbirds and seabirds in the Pacific (Atkinson 1977, Steadman 1989, Banko et al. 2019. ...

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Status of Landbirds in the National Park of American Samoa

... Despite the many hardships that their environment provides, they now number about 300,000. Arthur and Diamond (2011) have argued that this great population success compared to other Native American tribes is due to isolation, decreasing the spread of disease (although not for COVID-19), and the right kind of natural resources-not gold, which would bring invasion by the dominant population of European descent, but coal, uranium, and natural gas. Since there is an abundance of coal elsewhere in the USA, exploiting it on the reservation was not a high priority for non-Natives. ...

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Autosomal recessive diseases among the Athabaskans of the southwestern United States: anthropological, medical, and scientific aspects

... The linguistic data had also suggested to Hirsch (1954) that the Nadene had arrived about 3000 years ago and might have entered after the Eskimo-Aleut and separated them into Northern and Southern populations. The relationship of the Navajo language to that of Ket in Northern Siberia previously discussed has been strengthened by newer statistical tests (Diamond 2011). Analyses of material culture also support the recent arrival of Athabaskans and provide a probable mechanism for their ability to dominate previously arrived Native Americans in the areas where they have displaced them. ...

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Autosomal recessive diseases among the Athabaskans of the southwestern United States: anthropological, medical, and scientific aspects

... Emerging countries such as India show higher numbers among urban populations than rural populations [24]. [25]. ...

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Role of Imaging Spectrum Along With Other Diagnostic Modalities in Rhino-Orbital-Cerebral Mucormycosis (ROCM)