Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, which is located in Los Angles. He is also an author; he written Gun, Germs, and Steel and “How Societies Choose to fail or Succeed.” He won Pulitzer Prize as well a British award. Diamond is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He has made 22 or more trips to New Guinea. Born in Boston Massachusetts September 10, 1937, known for combining different fields into one. Travel to unknown places to study birds, but ended up studying the natives. Mr. Diamond is important with what we are learning because of the way he pieced different facts together. Then he listened to the disagreement then corrected his work.

Gun, Germs, and Steel

Frist published on March 1 1997. In this book Diamond focused on the physical geography of the world.  It talks about the natural thing in the world, like animals, plants, and yes us. He talks about how we have evolved in everything, like the military. Even if they did not have a full blow military we could us guns and weapons to fight.  For example Christopher Columbus did this to the natives. The germs part of this is that story is how we have advanced in fighting sicknesses. An example used in the book is the small pox. How some civilizations have progressed and others have not.