It’s the book that came before his mega-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, but it very much lays the groundwork for that work, as well as for Diamond’s 2005 ecological jeremiad Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. The result was Diamond’s first popular book, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. “I realized that the future of my sons was not going to depend upon the wills that my wife and I were drawing up for our sons, but on whether there was going to be a world worth living in in the year 2050.” “I concluded that gall bladders were not going to save the world,” remembers Diamond on the latest episode of the Inquiring Minds podcast. By the mid-1980s, he had become recognized as the world’s foremost expert on, of all things, the transport of sodium in the human gall bladder.īut then in 1987, something happened: His twin sons were born. Rather, after a Cambridge training in physiology, he at first embarked on a career in medical research. Jared Diamond didn’t start out as the globe-romping author of massive, best-selling books about the precarious state of our civilization.
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