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Science 7 January 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5706, p. 45
DOI: 10.1126/science.1105671
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HUMAN ECOLOGY:
Learning from the Past to Change Our Future

A review by Tim Flannery

Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Viking Press, New York, 2005. 591 pp. $29.95, C$44. ISBN 0-670-03337-5.

Examining cases such as Easter Island, the Greenland Norse, and the Classic Maya, the author provides a comparative study of the economic and social ruin that occurs when societies undermine their ecological foundations.
The reviewer is at the South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia. E-mail: flannery.tim{at}saugov.sa.gov.au

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