The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
Author: Jared M. Diamond Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Keywords: Biology ISBN: 0060845503
Book description Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: "How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the capacity to reverse all that progress overnight." The Third Chimpanzee is, in many ways, a prequel to Diamond's prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns examines "the fates of human societies, " this work surveys the longer sweep of human evolution, from our origin as just another chimpanzee a few million years ago. Diamond writes: It's obvious that humans are unlike all animals. It's also obvious that we're a species of big mammal down to the minutest details of our anatomy and our molecules.
Book review: Brilliant with some flaws After the spectacular success of UCLA geography Professor Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997) and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or to Succeed (2005)… A fine book, thought-provoking as usual, investigating with great skill why the human animal acts as it does. Not to be missed. A bit more propagandistic than "Collapse" and "Guns, Germs, and Steel, "… Online drug reference books: Generic - Brand Comparison Handbook, Oxandrolone - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British American: Being the Vocabularies of Crooks, Criminals, Racketeers, Beggars and Tramps, Convicts, the Commercial Underworld, the Drug Traffi, Current Therapy in Nephrology (Developments in Nephrology) |
