Jared Diamond on Leaders, Luck, and Irreplaceability
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Enhanced with helpful links, visit ConversationsWithTyler.com. Hello everyone and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I am greatly honored to be speaking with Jared Diamond. Jared studied physiology at Harvard and Cambridge and became initially a leading expert on the gallbladder. He is also an ornithologist, anthropologist, sociologist, evolutionary biologist, ecologist, and environmental historian with a working knowledge of archaeology, genetics, and the epidemiology of human diseases, and on top of all that he is Professor of Geography at UCLA,
He has a new and notable book out. Called. Prophets. Prophets. Coaches and Kings
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