Jared Diamond
Born September 10, 1937
Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author. He has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books, most notably Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received multiple awards, including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
Quotes
“Compressing 13,000 years of history on all continents into a 400-page book works out to an average of about one page per continent per 150 years, making brevity and simplification inevitable.”
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies “A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!"”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, p. 498 “History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, p. 349 “[..] the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, p. 45 “Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.”
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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Books by Jared Diamond in order
Books by Jared Diamond in the order they were published, from Horace (1958) to CGRC Study Guide 2024-2025 LATEST All in One CGRC Exam Prep for the Certified in Governance Risk and Compliance Certification. Includes CGRC Review Book and 712 CGRC Practice Test Questions Isc2 (2024).
- 1HoraceHorace1958
- 2Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea1972 - 3Birds of Karkar and Bagabag Islands, New GuineaBirds of Karkar and Bagabag Islands, New Guinea1979
- 4Community EcologyCommunity Ecology1986
- 5The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee1991 - 6Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel1997 - 7Why Is Sex Fun?
Why Is Sex Fun?1997 - 8Jared M. DiamondJared M. Diamond1998
- 9International Cosmos Prize, 1998International Cosmos Prize, 19981999
- 10Wild and the WeirdWild and the Weird1999
- 11Why Did Human History Unfold Differently on Different ContinWhy Did Human History Unfold Differently on Different Continents for the Last 13,000 Years?2001
- 12Collapse
Collapse2004 - 13Lessons from Environmental Collapses of Past Societies
Lessons from Environmental Collapses of Past Societies2004 - 14Natural Experiments of History
Natural Experiments of History2010 - 15The World Until Yesterday
The World Until Yesterday2012 - 16Upheaval
Upheaval2019 - 17Last Tree on Easter IslandLast Tree on Easter Island2021
- 18CGRC Study Guide 2024-2025 LATEST All in One CGRC Exam Prep CGRC Study Guide 2024-2025 LATEST All in One CGRC Exam Prep for the Certified in Governance Risk and Compliance Certification. Includes CGRC Review Book and 712 CGRC Practice Test Questions Isc22024