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Jared Diamond

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

Jared Diamond

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Jared Diamond realized that the period during his MacArthur grant was the right moment to focus on his true passions, which included environmental history. This time allowed him to begin writing his first book and dedicate more effort to studying how humans interact with the environment.

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