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==Selected honors== {{div col begin|colwidth=40em}} * 1992 [[Tanner Lecturer]], [[University of Utah]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.suunews.com/news/2012/mar/04/tanner-lecturer-will-present-tuesday/|work=SUU News|publisher=Southern Utah University|date=March 4, 2012|access-date=September 8, 2013|title=Tanner lecturer will present on Tuesday|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130908062215/http://www.suunews.com/news/2012/mar/04/tanner-lecturer-will-present-tuesday/|archive-date=September 8, 2013}}</ref> * 1992 [[RhΓ΄ne-Poulenc Prize for Science Books]] for ''The Third Chimpanzee''<ref name=rsocprizes/> * 1997 [[Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science|Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Prize]] for ''Guns, Germs and Steel'' * [[1998 Pulitzer Prize]] for [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction|General Nonfiction]] for ''Guns, Germs and Steel''<ref name=ng>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/jared-diamond/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224054001/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/jared-diamond/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 24, 2011|title=Jared Diamond, Geographer, Explorer-in-Residence|access-date=August 10, 2013|magazine=National Geographic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/1998-General-Nonfiction|publisher=pulitzerprize.org|year=1998|access-date=August 10, 2013|title=The 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Nonfiction}}</ref> * 1998 [[California Book Awards]], Gold Medal in nonfiction for ''Guns, Germs and Steel'' * 1998 [[Aventis Prize for Science Books]] for ''Guns, Germs and Steel''<ref name=rsocprizes/> * 1998 [[International Cosmos Prize]]<ref name="ecosmos"/> * 1999 [[Lannan Literary Awards#Lannan Literary Award for Non-Fiction|Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction]] * 1999 [[National Medal of Science]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/UCLA-Physiologist-Dr-Jared-Diamond-1454.aspx?RelNum=1454|publisher=UCLA Newsroom|access-date=August 10, 2013|date=January 30, 2000|author=Schmidt, Elaine|title=UCLA Physiologist Dr. Jared Diamond Wins National Medal of Science|archive-date=October 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013150559/http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/UCLA-Physiologist-Dr-Jared-Diamond-1454.aspx?RelNum=1454|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2001 [[Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement]] * 2002 [[Lewis Thomas Prize]] for Writing about Science * 2004 A foreign holder of honorary title of Academician<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.aka.fi/en/about-us/scientists-behind-the-research/academicians-of-science/ulkomaiset-tieteen-akateemikot/ |title=Jared Diamond is awarded by the Academy of Finland |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005160948/http://www.aka.fi/en/about-us/scientists-behind-the-research/academicians-of-science/ulkomaiset-tieteen-akateemikot/ |archive-date=October 5, 2015 }}</ref> in [[Academy of Finland]] * 2005 Elected Honorary Fellow, [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], England<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=204|title=Honorary Fellows|publisher=Trinity College|year=2013|access-date=September 8, 2013|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200416/http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=204|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2006 [[Royal Society Prize for Science Books]] for ''Collapse'' (shortlisted)<ref name=rsocprizes/> * 2006 [[Dickson Prize in Science]] * 2008 PhD Honoris Causa at the [[Katholieke Universiteit Leuven]], Belgium * 2013 [[Wolf Prize in Agriculture]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Shmulovich|first=Michal|title=Seven scientists and an architect to be awarded Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/seven-scientists-and-an-architect-to-be-awarded-israels-prestigious-wolf-prize/|access-date=February 6, 2013|newspaper=The Times of Israel|date=January 2, 2013}}</ref> * 2016 [[American Humanist Association]] [[Humanist of the Year]] {{div col end}} Eastern long-beaked echidna ''[[Eastern long-beaked echidna|Zaglossus bartoni diamondi]]'' was named in honor of Jared Diamond,<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1515/mamm.1998.62.3.367 |last1=Flannery |first1=T.F. |last2=Groves |first2=C.P. |name-list-style=amp |title=A revision of the genus ''Zaglossus'' (Monotremata, Tachyglossidae), with description of new species and subspecies |year=1998 |journal=Mammalia |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=367β396 |s2cid=84750399 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/270023}}</ref> as was the frog ''[[Austrochaperina adamantina]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zweifel |first1=R. G. |year=2000 |title=Partition of the Australopapuan microhylid frog genus ''Sphenophryne'' with descriptions of new species |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=253 |pages=1β130 |hdl=2246/1600 |doi=10.1206/0003-0090(2000)253<0001:POTAMF>2.0.CO;2 |s2cid=85621508 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/324513 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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