Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond, a Professor of Physiology and Public Health at UCLA and winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Medal of Science, is the author of, among other books, Guns, Germs, and Steel. (March 2004)

From the Review

March 25, 2004: Twilight at Easter

The Enigmas of Easter Island by John Flenley and Paul Bahn

Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island by Jo Anne Van Tilburg

March 11, 2004: Learning from New Guinea (letter)

November 7, 2002: The Religious Success Story

Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson

May 23, 2002: Living on the Moon

Viking Age Iceland by Jesse L. Byock

The History of Iceland by Gunnar Karlsson

The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection with a preface by Jane Smiley and an introduction by Robert Kellogg

April 11, 2002: Why Did the Vikings Vanish?

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga by William W. Fitzhugh and Elisabeth I. Ward

April 13, 2000: The Golden Phonebook

Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Translated from the Italian by Mark Seielstad

June 26, 1997: 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' (letter)

March 6, 1997: Outcasts of the Islands

The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks

November 14, 1996: The Roots of Radicalism

Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives by Frank J. Sulloway

January 12, 1995: Portrait of the Biologist as a Young Man

Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson

Books by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997)
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality (1997)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee (1992)
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (1992)