Thursday, January 3, 2013

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond is a human geography professor and was born on  September 10, 1937. He was born in Boston in a Jewish family. He is a professor at the University of California, is an author, and a scientist.. He has been awarded the  MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (Genius Award). He got his education from Harvard. He also has a phd in geography and physiology. Some of the books he has written include Guns, Germs and Steel, f Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. He is a great researcher and has gotten many grants from different colleges across the nation. He is a genius and has done research in 22 expeditions in Papua New Guinea and neighboring islands to study ecology and stuff on birds. The man has also taken part of taken part in numerous field projects for the Indonesian government and World Wildlife Fund. He may be the most interesting man on earth.
Jared Diamond goes to Papua New Guinea and changes his life direction and wrote a book about it, which turned into a book. This book exposes the great forces that shaped the human history over the past 10,000 years. It was awarded Pulitzer Prize and was awarded the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. is the This book was a mutli-million seller by the renowned academic Jared Diamond. The book will take you on a 10,000 year journey through history, and through every continent. This was first published  in the United States by W.W.Norton and Company, on March 1 1997.

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