The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)

ISBN: 0060845503

Author: Diamond, Jared M.

Condition: New

Wonderful....Jared Diamond conducts his fascinating study of our behavior and origins with a naturalists eye and a philosophers cunning. -Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the SensesIn this fascinating, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly entertaining work, renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author and scientist Jared Diamond, author of Gun, Germs, and Steel, 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.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?The Third Chimpanzee is a tour de force, an iconoclastic, compelling, sometimes alarming look at the unique and marvelous creature that is the human animal.