2019.06.30贾里德-戴蒙德是加利福尼亚大学地理学教授

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Jared Diamond is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, although his interests and expertise range far wider, from physiology to ornithology, history to ecology and from anthropology to evolutionary biology. His 1997 book, Guns, Germs and Steel, asked why Eurasian civilizations prospered and conquered others. It won a Pulitzer Prize and has sold more than a million copies around the world.

He was born in Boston in 1937 to a physician father and a mother who was a teacher and a concert pianist. She taught him to read when he was three and he also learned to play the piano and developed a love of languages. Thinking his professional life would be in science, he decided to focus on the humanities at school, including Latin and Greek. After graduating from Harvard, he moved to England to pursue a PhD in physiology at Cambridge and became an expert on salt absorption in the gall bladder. He returned to the USA, and then his travels took him to New Guinea where he developed a passionate interest in ornithology and a lifelong love of the island which he’s continued to visit for the past 50 years.

He has learned 12 languages, speaking several of them fluently, and has published six books and hundreds of articles. His most recent book, Upheaval, examines how nations cope with crisis and change.

Jared lives in Los Angeles with his wife Marie, a clinical psychologist. They have grown-up twin sons.

BOOK CHOICE: The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
LUXURY ITEM: Six cases of Scharzhofberger Kabinett, a Riesling wine from the Saar Basin
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Bach’s Cantata 50: "Nun ist das Heil"



贾里德-戴蒙德是加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校的地理学教授，尽管他的兴趣和专长范围更广，从生理学到鸟类学，从历史到生态学，从人类学到进化生物学。他在1997年出版的《枪炮、病菌和钢铁》一书中问道，为什么欧亚文明会繁荣起来并征服其他文明。该书获得了普利策奖，并在全世界销售了超过一百万册。

他于1937年出生在波士顿，父亲是医生，母亲是教师和音乐会钢琴家。她在他三岁时就教他读书，他还学会了弹钢琴，并对语言产生了热爱。他认为他的职业生活将是在科学领域，因此他决定在学校里专注于人文科学，包括拉丁语和希腊语。从哈佛大学毕业后，他来到英国，在剑桥大学攻读生理学博士学位，并成为胆囊吸收盐分方面的专家。他回到了美国，然后他的旅行把他带到了新几内亚，在那里他对鸟类学产生了浓厚的兴趣，并对这个岛屿产生了终生的爱，在过去的50年里他一直在访问这个岛屿。

他学会了12种语言，能流利地讲其中的几种，并出版了6本书和数百篇文章。他最近的一本书《动荡》研究了国家如何应对危机和变化。

贾里德与他的妻子玛丽住在洛杉矶，她是一名临床心理学家。他们有一对长大的双胞胎儿子。

书籍选择：阿瑟-柯南-道尔的《夏洛克-福尔摩斯全集》。
奢侈品：六箱Scharzhofberger Kabinett，一种来自萨尔盆地的雷司令葡萄酒。
卡斯特威的最爱：巴赫的第50号康塔塔："Nun ist das Heil"。