Jared Diamond is a professor of physiology at the
UCLA School of Medicine, an evolutionary biologist, physiologist, and bio-geographer. He won a Pulitzer Prize in
1998 for his book
Guns, Germs and Steel, which set out to explain in a simple and complete way the course of human beings for the last ten-thousand years. The book sets out to answer the question
why did European civilization win out over other competing civilizations.
He also wrote the book The Third Chimpanzee[?].
Diamond is also a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.