The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee (edit title)

Sony V edited the first sentence of The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee Sunday, August 2 2009.

• The next time that you visit a zoo, make a point of walking past the ape cages.

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• Added a contributor: Jared Diamond: (Author)

Sony V edited the table of contents of The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee Sunday, August 2 2009.

• 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

Shelfari edited the description of The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee Sunday, August 2 2009.

• 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 influenced by our animal origins.