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Jared Diamond
01/24/2005
Jared Diamond
A conversation with author Jared Diamond
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A conversation with UCLA professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond about his book, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed".
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Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. He works as a professor of geography at UCLA, and is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, 'Guns, Germs, and Steel'. He received the National Medal of Science in 1999.

Diamond?s books are renowned for his combination of anthropology, biology, linguistics, genetics, and history. In his most recent book, 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed', he examines what caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin and considers what contemporary society can learn from their fates.

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