Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond (born 1937) is an American author and scholar known for writing about geography, history, and human societies. He is best known for *Guns, Germs, and Steel*, a wide-ranging study of how environmental and geographic factors shaped the unequal development of societies, and for *Collapse*, which examines why some past societies failed while others endured. Diamond has also written *The Third Chimpanzee* and *The World Until Yesterday*. His work is noted for synthesizing research across multiple fields for general readers, and it has sparked both popular acclaim and scholarly debate.