His father, Louis Diamond, was a physician, and his mother, Flora Kaplan, a teacher, linguist, and concert pianist. Both of his parents were from East European Jewish families who had emigrated to the United States. In 2005, Diamond was ranked ninth on a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.ĭiamond was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Originally trained in physiology, Diamond is known for drawing from a variety of fields, including anthropology, ecology, geography and evolutionary biology. Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American ecologist, geographer, biologist, anthropologist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991) Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize) Collapse (2005) and The World Until Yesterday (2012).
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