The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee: How Our Animal Heritage Affects the Way We Live

Jared Diamond

Language: English

Publisher: Vintage Books

Published: Jan 1, 1991

Description:

More than 98 percent 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.