Author

Jared Diamond

Professor of Geography at UCLA; Pulitzer Prize winner for Guns, Germs, and Steel (1998)

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Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME’s best non-fiction books of all time, the number one international bestseller Collapse and most recently The World Until Yesterday. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond’s work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.

Born1937 · Boston, USA

Notable works Guns, Germs and SteelThe Third ChimpanzeeCollapse

HonoursPulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (1998) · National Medal of Science (1999)

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.— Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997)