What is Jared Diamond?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Jared Diamond | image = Jared diamond.jpg | caption = Diamond in 2007 | birth_name = Jared Mason Diamond | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1937|9|10|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = [[Physiology]], [[biophysics]], [[ornithology]], [[environmental science]], [[history]], [[ecology]], [[geography]], [[evolutionary biology]], and [[anthropology]] | workplaces = [[University of California, Los Angeles]] | education = {{ubl|[[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])|[[Trinity College, Cambridge]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}} | thesis_title = Concentrating activity of the gall-bladder | thesis_url = https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/16u99e0/44CAM_ALMA21429605800003606 | thesis_year = 1961 | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | awards = | signature = | footnotes = | website = }} '''Jared Mason Diamond''' (September 10, 1937 &ndash; ) was an [[Americans|American]] [[author]] and [[biologist]]. His book ''Guns, Germs, and Steel'' won a [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1997. == Life == Diamond was born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. His father was a doctor and his mother was a teacher. He received his college degree from [[Harvard University]] in 1958, and then he received a doctorate degree from the [[University of Cambridge]] in 1961. In 1966, he became a teacher at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]], a university in [[Los Angeles, California]]. He has also traveled to some islands called [[New Guinea]], which are far away from the [[United States]], in the South Pacific Ocean. Diamond is famous for knowing a lot about the birds that lived on that island, and he has traveled there m