Rate My Professor Jared Diamond

Diamond is the author of five Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling books on human societies and evolution, translated into 38 languages, including Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997), Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (2012), Natural Experiments of History (2010, with James A. Robinson), Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (1997), and The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (1991). These works have significantly shaped scholarly and public discourse on environmental, geographical, and biological influences on civilizations. His scientific publications include seminal papers such as 'Rapid up-regulation of snake intestine in response to feeding' (1994) and studies on bird extinctions and intestinal adaptation. Awards encompass the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (1998), Japan's Cosmos Prize (1998), U.S. National Medal of Science, Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, and election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. As a biological explorer, he rediscovered the Golden-fronted Bowerbird in New Guinea's Foja Mountains. Diamond serves as a director of World Wildlife Fund/U.S. and Conservation International, and teaches courses on world regions and past societies.