Editing Jared Diamond (section)

==Early life and education ==
Diamond was born on September 10, 1937 in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. His parents were both [[Eastern European Jewish]] immigrants. His father, [[Louis Diamond]], was a physician who emigrated from [[Chișinău]] in present-day [[Moldova]], then known as [[Bessarabia]]. His mother, Flora {{Nee|Kaplan}}, was a teacher, linguist, and concert pianist.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/24/jared-diamond-bestselling-biogeographer-answers-critics | title=Jared Diamond: 'Humans, 150,000 years ago, wouldn't figure on a list of the five most interesting species on Earth' &#124; Jared Diamond &#124; the Guardian | work=The Guardian | date=October 24, 2014 | last1=Burkeman | first1=Oliver }}</ref><ref name=guardian012013/> Diamond began studying [[piano]] at age six; years later, he would propose to his wife after playing [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]]' Intermezzo in A major for her.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Berkeley |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Berkeley |date=3 Mar 2013 |title=Jared Diamond |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r0ywj |website=[[Private Passions]]}}</ref>

By the age of seven he developed an interest in [[birdwatching]].<ref name="ReferenceA"/> This became one of his major life passions and resulted in a number of works published in ornithology.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Mayr |first1=Ernst |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-birds-of-northern-melanesia-9780195141702?cc=us&lang=en&# |title=The Birds of Northern Melanesia |last2=Diamond |first2=Jared |publisher=Oxford University Press |others=Color Plates by [[Harold Douglas Pratt Jr.|H. Douglas Pratt]] |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-19-514170-2 |author-link=Ernst Mayr }}</ref> He attended the [[Roxbury Latin School]] and studied [[Biochemistry|biochemical sciences]] at [[Harvard College]], graduating in 1958. He later studied at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], and graduated from Cambridge with a Ph.D. in 1961; his thesis was on the physiology and [[Membrane biology|biophysics of membranes]] in the [[gallbladder]].<ref name="TheLifeScientific"/><ref name="diamondphd">{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Jared Mason |last=Diamond |title=Concentrating activity of the gall-bladder |publisher=[[University of Cambridge]] |date=1961 |url=https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/16u99e0/44CAM_ALMA21429605800003606 }}</ref><ref name=ecosmos />