Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author best known for his bestselling popular science books including Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), Collapse (2005), and The Third Chimpanzee (1991), which explore human societies, evolution, and environmental history. IoES. His seminal work Guns, Germs, and Steel won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and he has received additional honors such as the National Medal of Science (1999) and a MacArthur Genius Grant.Encyclopedia.com. A professor of geography at UCLA until his retirement in 2024, Diamond is recognized as a polymath blending insights from ecology, geography, and anthropology.