Jared Diamond
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Biography
Jared M. Diamond is currently Professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles and formerly professor of physiology at UCLA. He was awarded his Ph.D. in physiology and membrane biophysics in 1961 from Cambridge University.
Diamond is the author of several popular science books including the Pulitzer Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel and The Third Chimpanzee, a book on human evolution.
Diamond's professional research interests include evolutionary physiology, and the biological regulation of nutrient transport, though he has also worked on ecology, ornithology (at the AMNH), biogeography and environmental health sciences.
Diamond also serves on the board of directors for the World Wildlife Fund and is currently working on a book named Ecocide.
Bibliography
Books
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2004)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997)
- Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality (1997)
- The Third Chimpanzee (1992)
Selected papers & essays
- "Ethnic differences: Variation in human testis size" (Nature. 1986 Apr 10-16;320(6062):488-9.)
- The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (May 1987) Discover pp. 64-66
External links
- Diamond bio at The Edge
- Bio at the NCSE
- Wikiquote on Jared Diamond [1]
