The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee
by:
Jared Diamond (author)
More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys out 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...
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More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys out 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099913801 (0099913801)
Publish date: May 28th 1992
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Popular Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Biology,
Sociology,
Anthropology,
Psychology,
Evolution
This was a very good book. Just the amount of topics Diamond intelligently delves into makes it worthwhile, with all of them being relevant to the title, namely The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. It is true that the book is a bit outdated in relation to the dates of our evolution or the d...
I was a little worried about this book after seeing the Human Family tree in "The Great Leap Forward". Something about it seemed wrong to me, so I asked my roommate about it. My roommate is a archeologist and took a whole class about human evolution. According to her, the Cro-Magon are related to Ne...
14 years ago
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