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Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist, historian, and author best known for his popular science and history books and articles. Originally trained in biochemistry and physiology, Diamond is commonly referred to as a polymath, stemming from his knowledge in many fields including anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary biology.
Jared Diamond investigates why cultures prosper or decline — and what we can learn by taking a broad look across many kinds of societies. Why you should listen In his books Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse (and the popular PBS and National Geographic documentaries they inspired), big-picture scholar Jared Diamond explores civilizations and ...
Jan 6, 2013 · Jared Diamond: what we can learn from tribal life. The west's dwindling connection with the natural world puts it in increasing peril, says the distinguished biologist in his new book. Many of...
Jan 30, 2005 · Jan. 30, 2005. COLLAPSE How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. By Jared Diamond. Illustrated. 575 pp. Viking. $29.95. EIGHT years ago Jared Diamond realized what is, for authors,...
Jan 17, 2013 · In his new book, The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies, Diamond questions the practice of psychologists who base their claims about human nature entirely on...
Jared Diamond is professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and the widely acclaimed Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, which won him a Pulitzer Prize as well as Britain's 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times Bestseller • Over Two Million Copies Sold “One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation” (Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times) , Guns, Germs, and Steel presents a groundbreaking, unified narrative of human history. , Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fates ...
