The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live

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Random House, Jul 31, 2013 - Science - 368 pages

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel

More than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man.

Jared Diamond surveys our life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal origins.

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
Jared M. Diamond
Snippet view - 1991
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
Jared M. Diamond
No preview available - 1992

About the author (2013)

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME’s best non-fiction books of all time, the number one international bestseller Collapse and most recently The World UntilYesterday. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond’s work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.

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TitleThe Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
AuthorJared Diamond
Editionreprint
PublisherRandom House, 2013
ISBN1409001407, 9781409001409
Length368 pages
Subjects ›  ›  › 

Nature / Animals / Primates
Science / General
Science / Life Sciences / Evolution
Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology
Social Science / Anthropology / Physical
  
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