Jared Diamond is the author of popular books like Guns, Germs, and Steel; Collapse; and Upheaval. He’s also a geographer, environmental historian, ornithologist, and evolutionary biologist, though he started his career as an expert on gallbladders. In the course of his life and research, he has learned 13 languages and traveled to New Guinea dozens of times.

In this episode of People I (Mostly) Admire, hosted by Steve Levitt, Diamond discusses his many brushes with death, why the Norse Greenlanders wouldn’t eat fish, how tree rings explain Gengis Khan’s success, and why he has never been invited to a cannibal ceremony.

This episode was originally published December 10, 2021.
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