Doors will open at 4:30 p.m.
Presented by the UCLA College, UCLA School of Law, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and UCLA Social Sciences.
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Jared Diamond is the author of six best-selling books, translated into 45 languages, about human societies: Guns, Germs, and Steel; Collapse; Why Is Sex Fun?; The Third Chimpanzee; The World Until Yesterday; and Upheaval. As a UCLA professor of geography (now emeritus), he is known for his breadth of interests, which involve three other fields: the biology of New Guinea birds, digestive physiology and conservation biology. He will bring the full scope of his scholarly expertise to his lecture, “How democracies live or die: lessons from recent history.”
His prizes and honors include the National Medal of Science, election to the National Academy of Sciences, the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the Wolf Prize in Agriculture, the International Cosmos Prize, the Blue Planet Prize, the Royal Society Science Book Prize (twice), and prizes from the American Gastroenterological Association, American Ornithologists Union, American Physiological Society, Royal Dutch Geographical Society, National Geographic Society, International Biogeography Society and Zoological Society of San Diego.
As a biological explorer, his most widely publicized finding was his rediscovery, at the top of New Guinea’s remote and uninhabited Foja Mountains, of the long-lost golden-fronted bowerbird, previously known only from four specimens found in a Paris feather shop in 1895.