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More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys out 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... read more
First Sentence
The next time that you visit a zoo, make a point of walking past the ape cages.
Table of Contents
Prologue
PART ONE: JUST ANOTHER SPECIES OF BIG MAMMAL
1 A Tale of Three Chimps
2 The Great Leap Forward
PART TWO: AN ANIMAL WITH A STRANGE LIFE CYCLE
3 The Evolution of Human Sexuality
4 The Science of Adultery
5 How We Pick Our Mates and Sex Partners
6 Sexual Selection, and the Origin of Human Races
7 Why Do We Grow Old and Die?
PART THREE: UNIQUELY HUMAN
8 Bridges to Human Language
Appendix: Neo-Melanesian in One Easy Lesson
9 Animal Origins of Art
10 Agriculture's Two-Edged Sword
11 Why Do We Smoke, Drink, and Use Dangerous Drugs?
12 Alone in a Crowded Universe
PART FOUR: WORLD CONQUERORS
13 The Last First Contacts
14 Accidental Conquerors
15 Horses, Hittites, and History
Appendix: A prot-Indo-European Fable
16 In Black and White
Appendix: Indian Policies of Some Famous Americans
PART FIVE: REVERSING OUR PROGRESS OVERNIGHT
17 The Golden Age that Never Was
18 Blitzkrieg and Thanksgiving in the New World
19 The Second Cloud
EPILOGUE: Nothing Learned, and Everything Forgotten?
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
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