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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

Jared Diamond

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#1241 of 3,809 books · #106 in Science & Technology

Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (1992).

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? In this work, Jared Diamond 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.

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HarperCollins Publishers
Topics
Human evolutionEvolutionary biologyAnthropology

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