Jared M. Diamond is a professor of physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine, an evolutionary biologist, physiologist, and bio-geographer. He is best known as an author of popular works that combine anthropology, biology and history. 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?
