REBROADCAST OF SEPTEMBER 25TH PRESENTATION – Guns, Germs and Steel: How the Modern World Came to Be
Jared Diamond
Tuesday, 02 Oct 2001 at 12:00 pm – Oak Room, Memorial Union
Jared Diamond, professor of physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine, is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation genius grant, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. He also wrote The Third Chimpanzee and has published over 200 articles in Discover, Natural History, Nature, and Geo magazines. He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded Japan's Cosmos Prize in 1998, the National Medal of Science in 1999, and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2001.
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