Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
Just another species of big mammal -- An animal with a strange life cycle -- Uniquely human -- World Conquerors -- Reversing our progress overnight -- Nothing learned, and everything forgotten?