Jared Diamond Audio & Video

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel answers the question: Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse?

Diamond probes the other side of the equation: what caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?

With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near...

In this streaming video lecture recorded at UC- Santa Barbara, Dr. Jared Diamond delivers an entertaining lecture around the subject of his bestselling book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

Explore the Earth's last frontier, learn how the dinosaurs died, or discover the direction human evolution is heading...

A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark best sellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the International Bestsellers "Guns, Germs, & Steel" , "Collapse" and his new book "The World Until Yesterday" and a professor at UCLA known for drawing from a variety of fields (AKA "polymath") including anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary biology.

Mr. Holtz spoke to professor Diamond about his book Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, published by Norton.

To us humans, the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives.

At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft and nuclear weapons—all within a heartbeat of evolutionary time.