Jared Diamond
Professor, Author
1937 –
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Who is Jared Diamond?
Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse and The World Until Yesterday. Originally trained in physiology, Diamond's work is known for drawing from a variety of fields, including anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary biology. As of 2013, he is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been described as "America’s best-known geographer".
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- Born
- Sep 10, 1937
Boston - Also known as
- Jared Mason Diamond
- Parents
- Spouses
- Ethnicity
- Ashkenazi Jews
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Trinity College, Cambridge
Physiology
( - 1961) - Biophysics
- Harvard College
- Harvard University
- Roxbury Latin School
- PhD, Trinity College, Cambridge
- Employment
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Lived in
- Boston
- Los Angeles
- United States of America
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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