Jared Diamond

Geographer, Evolutionary Biologist

Jared Diamond is an American scientist, author, and Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. His Pulitzer Prize winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel examined why certain civilisations came to dominate others, weaving together insights from ecology, linguistics, and anthropology. His subsequent work Collapse explored how societies choose to fail or succeed in the face of environmental challenges.

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Books by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel

by Jared Diamond

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Diamond argues that geography, not racial superiority, explains why some civilizations dominated others. Differences in domesticable plants, animals, and continental axes gave certain societies an insurmountable head start.

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Collapse

by Jared Diamond

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Diamond investigates why some societies collapse while others endure, tracing destruction to environmental damage and failed group decision-making. The past warns the present.

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The books Jared Diamond references, cites, and recommends most frequently.

The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

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Darwin lays out the evidence that species evolve through natural selection, where small heritable variations accumulate over generations. The theory unified biology and changed how we understand life.

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Who Jared draws from, and who draws from Jared — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.

Jared cites most often

1Charles Darwin
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Authors who cite Jared most often

1David Graeber and David Wengrow
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2Neil Price
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3Charles C. Mann
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4Graham Allison
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5Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
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6Matt Ridley
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7Trevor Noah
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8John Ratey
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