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Jared Diamond

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Academic Profile

Academic Background: A.B., Harvard University, 1958; Ph.D. in Physiology, University of Cambridge, 1961.

Research Interests: Biogeography, human societies, environmental history, and evolutionary biology.

Appointments: Professor of Geography, UCLA, since 1987.

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Guns, Germs, and Steel, 1998; National Medal of Science, 1999; MacArthur Fellowship.

Publications: Author of Guns, Germs, and Steel (W.W. Norton, 1997), Collapse (Viking, 2005), and The World Until Yesterday (Viking, 2012).

Additional Contributions: Frequent speaker at global conferences; contributor to Natural History magazine.