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Jared Mason Diamond is an American geographer, historian, anthropologist, and author best known for his popular science books. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (previously titled Guns,Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).