Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee

how our animal heritage affects the way we live

Häftad, Engelska, 1992

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From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:1992-05-28
Mått:128 x 202 x 22 mm
Vikt:265 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Vintage Publishing
ISBN:9780099913801
Utmärkelser:Winner of Rhone Poulenc General Prize for Science Books 1992

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Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME’s best non-fiction books of all time, the number one international bestseller Collapse and most recently The World UntilYesterday. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond’s work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.