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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: What’s in it for me? Get to know your close cousins and learn some human history.
Chapter 2: Science shows that humans are more genetically similar to other primates than previously thought.
Chapter 3: Humans were always evolving, but it was the ability to speak that really changed things.
Chapter 4: Language development in humans can be understood through both historical and comparative scientific models.
Chapter 5: Natural and sexual selection gave rise to “racial characteristics”.
Chapter 6: What you thought about agriculture’s benefits is most probably wrong.
Chapter 7: Genocide is terribly human.
Chapter 8: We have always exploited the environment to satisfy our needs.
Description
In The Third Chimpanzee (1991), Jared Diamond explores the evolution of Homo sapiens, which started out like any other animal and gradually became a unique creature capable of producing speech, making art and inventing technology. The book reveals some extraordinary insights about the nature of human beings.
Who Should Listen
- Students of history and anthropology
- People interested in human evolution
- Readers querying the essence of humankind