Ecological Collapses of Pre-industrial Societies

Jared M. Diamond is professor of physiology at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical School. He is also a research associate in ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History (New York) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. He was educated at Harvard University and received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and is director of the World Wildlife Fund, U.S.A. His evolutionary studies have been recognized by, among others, the Burr Award of the National Geographic Society and the Coues Award of the American Ornithologists’ Union.