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

Diamond, Jared M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060845503 ISBN 13 : 9780060845506

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2006

Synopsis

“Wonderful....Jared
Diamond conducts his fascinating study of our behavior and origins with a
naturalist’s eye and a philosopher’s cunning.” —Diane
Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses

In 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jared Diamond is the author of the bestselling Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel. A professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, he has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is a MacArthur Fellow and was awarded the National Medal of Science.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The Development of an Extraordinary Species

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? In this fascinating, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly entertaining work, renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning author and scientist Jared Diamond 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0060845503
• ISBN 13: 9780060845506
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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