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 Steel More 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.

• Author: Jared Diamond
• Publisher: Random House
• Published: 2013-07-31
• Pages: 370
• ISBN-13: 9781409001409