Dr. Jared Diamond
Professor, Geography and Physiology
1251A Bunche Hall
310-825-6177
jdiamond@geog.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Regulation of nutrient transport; integrative and evolutionary physiology

Recent Awards:

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, 1998
Japan's Cosmos Prize, 1998

Representative Publications:

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Viking Penguin, New York, 2005).

Guns, Germs, and Steel:  the Fates of Human Societies (Norton, New York, 1997).

S.M. Secor, D. Fehsenfeld, J.M. Diamond, and T.E. Adrian.  Responses of python gastrointestinal regulatory peptides to feeding.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 13637-13642 (2001).

J.M. Diamond.  Quantitative evolutionary design.  J. Physiol. (London) 542: 337-345 (2002).