The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee:how our animal heritage affects the way we live Diamond, Jared

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Diamond, Jared

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Vintage books 1991 LondonDescription: 360 pISBN:

9780099913801

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DDC classification:

573.2 D4R4

Summary: 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. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1029753/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-third-chimpanzee/

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ahmedabad	Non-fiction	573.2 D4R4 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		194442

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	572.04 M2M2 Magic, science and religion, and other essays	572.081 S3R2 Race, language and culture	572.330285 B2 Bayesian methods in structural bioinformatics	573.2 D4R4 The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee:how our animal heritage affects the way we live	573.2 S6F8 Future humans: inside the science of our continuing evolution	573.8 B4 Biopsychological impacts: in the era of science and technology

Table of Contents:

1.Just anothor species of big mammal
2.An animal with a strange life cycle
3.Uniquely human
4.World conquerors
5.Reversing our progress overnight

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.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1029753/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-third-chimpanzee/

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