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 It is true that the book is a bit outdated in relation to the dates of our evolution or the d...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...