Jared Diamond

Dr. Jared Diamond is universally regarded as one of the great minds of our time. Recipient of the MacArthur Foundation genius grant and a professor at UCLA, he is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Third Chimpanzee and Why is Sex Fun? He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Acadamy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He has published over 200 articles in Discover, Natural History, Nature, and Geo magazines.

Recipient of the MacArthur Foundation genius grant and a professor at UCLA, Dr. Jared Diamond is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Guns, Germs, and Steel.