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Jared Diamond, professor of physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine, began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and has received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, a Phi Beta Kappa Award, the Burr Award of the National Geographic Society, and the National Medal of Science. He has published over 200 articles in?Discover, Natural History, Nature, and Geo magazines.
加州大学洛杉矶分校医学院的生理学教授贾里德·戴蒙德(Jared Diamond)开始了他的生理学科学生涯，并扩展到进化生物学和生物地理学。他被选入美国艺术与科学院、国家科学院和美国哲学学会，并获得麦克阿瑟基金会奖学金、Phi Beta Kappa奖、国家地理学会伯尔奖和国家科学奖章。他在美国发表了200多篇文章？发现，自然历史，自然，和 Geo 杂志。
More praise for?Guns, Germs, and Steel
更多赞扬 枪支、病菌和钢铁
“No scientist brings more experience from the laboratory and field, none thinks more deeply about social issues or addresses them with greater clarity, than Jared Diamond as illustrated by?Guns, Germs, and Steel. In this remarkably readable book he shows how history and biology can enrich one another to produce a deeper understanding of the human condition.”
“没有一位科学家比贾里德·戴蒙德(Jared Diamond)更能从实验室和现场带来更多的经验，更能深入思考社会问题或更清晰地解决社会问题。在这本可读性极强的书中，他展示了历史和生物学如何相互丰富，从而对人类状况产生更深刻的理解。”
—Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University
-爱德华·威尔逊，佩莱格里诺大学教授，哈佛大学
“Serious, groundbreaking biological studies of human history only seem to come along once every generation or so…. Now Jared Diamond must be added to their select number…. Diamond meshes technological mastery with historical sweep, anecdotal delight with broad conceptual vision, and command of sources with creative leaps. No finer work of its kind has been published this year, or for many past.”
“对人类历史的严肃、开创性的生物学研究似乎每一代左右才出现一次……现在，贾里德·戴蒙德必须加入到他们的精选名单中……戴蒙德将技术掌握与历史扫描、轶事般的喜悦与广阔的概念视野以及对资源的掌握与创造性的飞跃联系在一起。今年乃至过去的许多年都没有发表过类似的优秀作品。”
—Martin Sieff,?Washington Times
-马丁·西夫，《华盛顿时报》
“[Diamond’s] masterful synthesis is a refreshingly unconventional history informed by anthropology, behavioral ecology, linguistics, epidemiology, archeology, and technological development.”
“[戴蒙德的]精湛的综合是一部令人耳目一新的非传统历史，由人类学、行为生态学、语言学、流行病学、考古学和技术发展提供信息。”
—Publishers Weekly?(starred review)
-出版商周刊(明星评论)
“[Jared Diamond] is broadly erudite, writes in a style that pleasantly expresses scientific concepts in vernacular American English, and deals almost exclusively in questions that should interest everyone concerned about how humanity has developed…. [He] has done us all a great favor by supplying a rock-solid alternative to the racist answer…. A wonderfully interesting book.”
“〔贾里德·戴蒙德〕博学广博，用美国本土英语愉快地表达了科学概念，几乎只涉及所有关心人类如何发展的人都感兴趣的问题……他为我们大家提供了一个坚如磐石的答案，这是一本非常有趣的书。”
—Alfred W. Crosby,?Los Angeles Times
-阿尔弗雷德·克罗斯比，《洛杉矶时报》
“Fascinating and extremely important…. [A] synopsis doesn’t do credit to the immense subtlety of this book.”
“引人入胜且极为重要……[A]本书的内容提要并不足以说明本书的精妙之处。”
—David Brown,?Washington Post Book World
-大卫·布朗，《华盛顿邮报》世界图书
“Deserves the attention of anyone concerned with the history of mankind at its most fundamental level. It is an epochal work. Diamond has written a summary of human history that can be accounted, for the time being, as Darwinian in its authority.”
“值得关注人类历史最基本层面的任何人的关注。这是一部划时代的作品。戴蒙德写了一篇人类历史的总结，目前可以说是达尔文主义的权威。”
—Thomas M. Disch,?New Leader
-托马斯·M·迪什，新领导人
“A wonderfully engrossing book…. Jared Diamond takes us on an exhilarating world tour of history that makes us rethink all our ideas about ourselves and other peoples and our places in the overall scheme of things.”
“一本引人入胜的书……贾里德·戴蒙德带领我们进行了一次激动人心的世界历史之旅，让我们重新思考我们对自己、其他民族以及我们在整体事物中的地位的所有想法。” -
—Christopher Ehret, Professor of African History, UCLA
克里斯托弗·埃雷特，加州大学洛杉矶分校非洲史教授
“Jared Diamond masterfully draws together recent discoveries in fields of inquiry as diverse as archaeology and epidemiology, as he illuminates how and why the human societies of different continents followed widely divergent pathways of development over the past 13,000 years.”
“贾里德·戴蒙德巧妙地汇集了考古学和流行病学等研究领域的最新发现，他阐明了在过去13000年中，不同大陆的人类社会是如何以及为什么遵循迥然不同的发展道路的。”
—Bruce D. Smith, Director, Archaeobiology Program, Smithsonian Institution
-布鲁斯·D·史密斯，古生物学项目主任，史密森学会
“The question, ‘Why did human societies have such diverse fates?’ has usually received racist answers. Mastering information from many different fields, Jared Diamond convincingly demonstrates that head starts and local conditions can explain much of the course of human history. His impressive account will appeal to a vast readership.”
“为什么人类社会的命运如此不同？”这个问题通常会得到种族主义的回答。贾里德·戴蒙德掌握了许多不同领域的信息，令人信服地证明，先起步的优势和当地条件可以解释人类历史的大部分过程。他令人印象深刻的叙述将吸引广大读者。”
—Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Professor of Genetics, Stanford University
-卢卡·卡瓦利·斯福尔扎，斯坦福大学遗传学教授