The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal – An Iconoclastic Look at DNA, Genetics, and What Makes Us Unique

Synopsis

“wonderful. Jareddiamond conducts his fascinating study of our behavior and origins with anaturalist’s eye and a philosopher’s cunning. ” —dianeackerman, author of a natural history of the sensesin this fascinating, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly entertaining work, renowned pulitzer prize–winningauthor 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. Andthe means to irrevocably destroy it. We human beings share 98 percentof our genes with chimpanzees.