Jared M. Diamond

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal -- Jared M. Diamond, Paperback

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"Wonderful....Jared Diamond conducts his fascinating study of our behavior and origins with a naturalist's eye and a philosopher's cunning." --Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses

In this fascinating, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly entertaining work, renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author and scientist Jared Diamond, author of Gun, Germs, and Steel, explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world . . . and the means to irrevocably destroy it.

We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet--having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created breathtaking works of art--while chimps remain animals concerned primarily with the basic necessities of survival. What is it about that two percent difference in DNA that has created such a divergence between evolutionary cousins?

The Third Chimpanzee is a tour de force, an iconoclastic, compelling, sometimes alarming look at the unique and marvelous creature that is the human animal.



Author: Jared M. Diamond
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/03/2006
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.35w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780060845506

Product Tags:

Anthropology, Archaeology / Anthropology, Civilization, Evolution, Harper Perennial, History, Human evolution, Jared M. Diamond, Life Sciences, P.S., Paperback, Science, Social Science

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