Quote by: Jared Diamond

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

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Author Bio

  • NameJared Diamond
  • DescriptionAmerican scientist and author
  • BornSeptember 10, 1937
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBiologist; Physiologist; Geographer; Writer
  • WorksThe Third Chimpanzee; Why Is Sex Fun?; Guns, Germs, And Steel; Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed; The World Until Yesterday
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; Pulitzer Prize For General Non-Fiction; Tyler Prize For Environmental Achievement