Jared Diamond
Nascido: September 10, 1937 – Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Jared Diamond is an American scientist, geographer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author known for his interdisciplinary works on human evolution, societies, and environmental history. His influential books, notably Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse, have been translated into dozens of languages and have shaped global discussions on the development and sustainability of civilizations.
Biografia e Jornada do Autor
Jared Diamond, born in Boston in 1937 to parents Louis, a pediatrician, and Flora, a linguist and pianist, grew up surrounded by intellectual curiosity and creativity. His early years were marked by a passion for reading, birdwatching, and music—a foundation that would later inform his interdisciplinary approach to science and writing. Diamond studied physiology at Harvard before earning a Ph.D. from Cambridge, initially focusing on cellular biology. However, a transformative trip to New Guinea in 1964 turned his attention to big questions about human societies: Why did the indigenous peoples of New Guinea, demonstrably intelligent and resourceful, lack writing, centralized leadership, or steel tools? This curiosity ignited a lifelong pursuit of understanding the divergent paths of civilizations.
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"Jared Diamond is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of five best-selling books about human societies and evolution"
— UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
"Jared Diamond’s work is known for drawing from a variety of fields, including physiology, ecology, anthropology, and linguistics"
— Wikipedia
"Jared Diamond is currently professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles"
— Wikipedia
"Jared Diamond has received awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the International Cosmos Prize"
— Wikipedia
"Jared Diamond is best known for popular science books such as 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' and 'Collapse"
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"Jared Diamond’s 'Collapse' became an international bestseller and was the basis for a National Geographic documentary"
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"Jared Diamond’s 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' was named one of TIME’s best non-fiction books of all time"
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"Jared Diamond argues that environmental factors, not racial or cultural ones, explain the development of societies"
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"Jared Diamond's books have been translated into 38 languages"
— UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
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