The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore 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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Weight 0.255 kg
Dimensions 2.2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
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368
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Year Published

1992-5-28
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099913801
About The Author

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.

Eloquent and knowledgeable account of the tiny genetic difference between humans and chimps
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Some biologists are just scientists; but some truly are thinkers. Jared Diamond is one of the latter. Whatever he applies himself to, his contribution is original and worthwhile

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