Jared Diamond: How Much Can One Person Change History?
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Hey everybody, it's Michael Shermer. It's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show. My guest today, the legendary Jared Diamond. Oh my gosh, a returning champion. The previous ones we recorded in person, but uh, you know, everybody's online these days and Jared's in his uh personal library there.
Nice. But let me give him a proper introduction. He's a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, yes, UCLA. Among his many awards are the U.S. National Medal of Science.
The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the Wolfe Prize for Agriculture, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, that's the genius fellowship he is. The Rockefeller University's Lewis Thomas Prize, honoring scientists as a poet. Lewis Thomas was one of the great science popularizers in his day. And he's been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
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