Jared Diamond
Jared M. Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, and biogeographer. As of June 2004, he is professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was formerly professor of physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine.
Diamond is best known as an author of popular science works that combine anthropology, biology and history. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his book Guns, Germs and Steel, which proposes that geographic and environmental factors were the ultimate cause of the rise of Western hegemony in the world.
Diamond is also a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Bibliography
- Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companion (2003) ISBN 1586638637
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997) ISBN 0393317552
- Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality (1997) ISBN 0465031269
- The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (1992) ISBN 0060984031
