The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee... /​ Jared Diamond

Title

• The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee : how our animal heritage affects the way we live / Jared Diamond.

Author

• Diamond, Jared M., (author.)

Published

• London, England : Vintage books, 2002.

Copyright

• ©1991.

Content Types

• cartographic image
• still image
• text

Carrier Types

• volume

Physical Description

• 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

Subjects

• Social evolution.
• Evolution.
• Humankind -- Origin.
• Human behaviour.
• Human evolution.
• Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
• Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
• Human beings -- Animal nature.

Target Audience

• Adult

Summary

• More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys out 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. The winner of the 1992 Science Book Prize.

Contents

• Just another species of big mammal
• An animal with a strange life cycle
• Uniquely human
• World Conquerors
• Reversing our progress overnight
• Epilogue: Nothing learned, and everything forgotten?

Notes

• "First published in Great Britain by Radius, 1991."
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

• English

ISBN

• 9780099913801