Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet-having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created breathtaking works of art-while chimps remain animals concerned primarily with the basic necessities of survival. We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses In this fascinating, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly entertaining work, renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author and scientist Jared Diamond, author of Gun, Germs, and Steel, explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world. Book Synopsis Wonderful.Jared Diamond conducts his fascinating study of our behavior and origins with a naturalists eye and a philosophers cunning.
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