Awards and Honors
- 1961–1965 Prize Fellowship in Physiology, Trinity College, Cambridge, England
- 1968–1971 Lederle Medical Faculty Award
- 1972 Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA Medical Class
- 1973 Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA Medical Class
- 1975 Distinguished Achievement Award, American Gastroenterological Association
- 1976 Kaiser Permanente/Golden Apple Teaching Award
- 1976 Nathaniel Bowditch Prize, American Physiological Society
- 1978 American Ornithologists Union, elected fellow
- 1979 Franklin L. Burr Award, National Geographic Society
- 1985 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant
- 1989 Archie Carr Medal
- 1990 MacArthur Foundation Fellow
- 1992 Tanner Lecturer, University of Utah and many other endowed lectureships
- 1992 Rhône-Poulenc Prize for Science Books for The Third Chimphanzee
- 1992 Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize
- 1993 Zoological Society of San Diego Conservation Medal
- 1994 Skeptics Society, Randi Award
- 1995 Honorary doctor of literature, Sejong University, Korea
- 1996 Faculty Research Lecturer, UCLA
- 1997 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Prize for Guns, Germs and Steel
- 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Guns, Germs and Steel
- 1998 Elliott Coues Award, American Ornithologists' Union
- 1998 California Book Awards, Gold Medal in nonfiction for Guns, Germs and Steel
- 1998 Aventis Prize for Science Books for Guns, Germs and Steel
- 1998 International Cosmos Prize
- 1999 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
- 1999 National Medal of Science
- 2001 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
- 2002 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science
- 2006 Royal Society Prize for Science Books for Collapse (shortlisted)
- 2006 Dickson Prize in Science
- 2008 PhD Honoris Causa at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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