![]() The result was Diamond’s first popular book, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. “I realized that the future of my sons was not going to depend upon the wills that my wife and I were drawing up for our sons, but on whether there was going to be a world worth living in in the year 2050.” ![]() “I concluded that gall bladders were not going to save the world,” remembers Diamond on the latest episode of the Inquiring Minds podcast. ![]() By the mid-1980s, he had become recognized as the world’s foremost expert on, of all things, the transport of sodium in the human gall bladder.īut then in 1987, something happened: His twin sons were born. Rather, after a Cambridge training in physiology, he at first embarked on a career in medical research. ![]() Jared Diamond didn’t start out as the globe-romping author of massive, best-selling books about the precarious state of our civilization. ![]()
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