About Jared Diamond





COLLAPSE? › Home › Exhibit Preview › Jared Diamond › Events › Links › Credits	ABOUT JARED DIAMOND Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles and one of the most celebrated thinkers of our time. Like the Natural History Museum, Dr. Diamond studies the past to better understand our present situation and anticipate the future. Collapse? has been inspired by his latest book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" (Viking Penguin 2005), which investigates how environmental circumstances and other factors have impacted societies in the past and continue to influence our global community. For more information: Jared Diamond bio on the Penguin Group website "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" on the Penguin Group website



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