Jared Diamond

The Profile

Jared Diamond (born 1937) is an American author, geographer and historian, best known for writing Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Pulitzer Prize winner (1998) for Guns, Germs, and Steel; professor of geography at UCLA; writes popular-science books on human societies, environment and history.

A positive reader review praises Jared Diamond's The Third Chimpanzee for clarifying doubts about evolution and connecting human behavior with animal behavior. The reviewer recommends the book as a source of answers on evolution, sex, language and violence.