Jared Diamond
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Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American author and scientist. He is famous for writing a book named Guns, Germs, and Steel, which in 1997 won a Pulitzer Prize.
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[change] Life
Diamond was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a doctor and his mother was a teacher. He received his college degree from Harvard in 1958, and then he received a doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge in 1961.
In 1966, he became a teacher at UCLA, a university in Los Angeles, California. He also traveled to some islands called New Guinea, which are far away from the United States, in the South Pacific Ocean. Diamond was famous for knowing a lot about the birds that lived on that island, and he traveled there many times.
[change] Writing
Diamond is very famous for the things that he writes. He is able to write about science in ways that many people can understand, and he has written many articles for famous magazines like Discover in the United States.
He also writes books. One of his first books was called The Third Chimpanzee, which talked about the way that people evolved from monkeys, and how many things are the same between humans and monkeys.
His most famous book is Guns, Germs, and Steel. In his book, Diamond explained why he thought that different parts of the earth had people on them at different times, and why some people in some parts of the world had more science or farming than people in other parts of the world. The book went over thousands of years of human history.
In 2004, he wrote another book, called, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. In this book, Diamond wrote about why he thought that some groups of people from many hundreds of years ago were able to have their groups get very big and strong, while other groups fell apart. His book talked about what people today can maybe learn from the studying the problems from history.
[change] Books
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), ISBN 0670033375.
- Guns, Germs and Steel|Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997), ISBN 0393317552.
- Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (1997), ISBN 0465031277.
- The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (1992), ISBN 0060984031.
- The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, & Biogeography (with Ernst Mayr, 2001), ISBN 0195141709.
- Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea, Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, No. 12, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 438 (1972).
[change] Family
- Diamond is married to a woman named Marie. Her grandfather was an important man in the country of Poland. She also had an uncle named Raphael Kalinowski, who became a saint.
- Diamond and his wife Marie have two sons, named Josh and Max. They both go to university. Josh goes to Duke University, and Max goes to Northwestern University.
