From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys our 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.
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee.
Eloquent and knowledgeable account of the tiny genetic difference between humans and chimps
How our animal heritage affects the way we live

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ISBN
9780099913801
Publisert
1992-05-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
255 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
01, U, G, P, 05, 01, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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Biographical note

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME’s best non-fiction books of all time, the number one international bestseller Collapse and most recently The World UntilYesterday. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond’s work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.