In addition, the author will speak to AU classes on Tuesday. His studies as a physiologist and evolutionary biologist have taken him from the unique biology of the rain forests of New Guinea to an exploration of man's history and social development on each continent for the past 13,000 years. Diamond is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A dedicated ecologist, he is on the Board of Directors of the World Wildlife Fund. The Littleton-Franklin Lectures, sponsored since 1968 by the John and Mary Franklin Foundation of Atlanta, also recognizes the services of Mosley Professor Emeritus Taylor D. Littleton of Auburn.
All lectures are free and open to the public.