DIAMOND'S IN THE ROUGH
Some folks really hate Jared Diamond. And those folks love hating Jared Diamond. As a good polymath, Diamond (with backgrounds in physiology, ecology, evolutionary biology, geography, history, and anthropology, degrees from Harvard and Cambridge, and professorships at UCLA in both medicine and geography) has written several books. His first popular work came out in 1991 and was titled, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. He followed that in 1997 with two books, Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality and Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. And in 2005 Diamond came out with his latest work, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. You see, the man likes exploring big ideas.
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