|
Horoscope
2009 Horoscopes
2008 Horoscopes
Sexual Compatibility
Love Match: Woman
Love Match: Man
Astrological Events
Monthly Horoscope
Weekly Horoscope
The Signs/Zodiac
Chinese Horoscope
Horoscope Archive
Astrology
New: Rising Signs The Ascendant
The Moon
Planet Mercury
Planet Mars
Planet Venus
2009 Moon Calendar
Astro Dating Tips
Opposites Attract
Astrological Compatibility
How To Seduce A Man By Sun Sign
Solar and Lunar Eclipses
New and Full Moons
For You
Get Your Personalized Horoscope
Personal Astrology Reading
Ask Elizabeth
Contact
Home
Subscribe To Sexual Astrology RSS Feeds
Your are here:
Books - The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
|
Sexual Astrology - Books : The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 573.2
EAN: 9780060183073
ISBN: 0060183071
Label: Harpercollins
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 407
Publication Date: 1992-01
Publisher: Harpercollins
Sales Rank: 719817
Studio: Harpercollins
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The Development of an Extraordinary Species
We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. 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. What is it about that two percent difference in DNA that has created such a divergence between evolutionary cousins? In this fascinating, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly entertaining work, renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning author and scientist Jared Diamond explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world . . . and the means to irrevocably destroy it.
Amazon.com Review:
Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: 'How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the capacity to reverse all that progress overnight.' The Third Chimpanzee is, in many ways, a prequel to Diamond's prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns examines 'the fates of human societies,' this work surveys the longer sweep of human evolution, from our origin as just another chimpanzee a few million years ago. Diamond writes:
It's obvious that humans are unlike all animals. It's also obvious that we're a species of big mammal down to the minutest details of our anatomy and our molecules. That contradiction is the most fascinating feature of the human species.
The chapters in The Third Chimpanzee on the oddities of human reproductive biology were later expanded in Why Is Sex Fun? Here, they're linked to Diamond's views of human psychology and history.
Diamond is officially a physiologist at UCLA medical school, but he's also one of the best birdwatchers in the world. The current scientific consensus that 'primitive' humans created ecological catastrophes in the Pacific islands, Australia, and the New World owes a great deal to his fieldwork and insight. In Diamond's view, the current global ecological crisis isn't due to modern technology per se, but to basic weaknesses in human nature. But, he says, 'I'm cautiously optimistic. If we will learn from our past that I have traced, our own future may yet prove brighter than that of the other two chimpanzees.' --Mary Ellen Curtin
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
The connection of the the evoutionary and phsychological charachteristics of human beings is worth the read. The evidance is lacking but more then made up for by circumstantial logic. There are few books that shed light on human charachteristics and such finds should not be skipped.
Rating:  -
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. I still have not recieved the book I PAID for.
Rating:  -
The first part, covering human evolution and biology, is fascinating. I especially enjoyed finding out that, compared to all other primates, I have an enormous penis. Have tried using this fact to impress women in bars with mixed results. Okay, not really mixed. No results.
The second part reads sortof like practice for Diamond's later, Pulitzer-winning "Guns, Germs and Steel"; he's starting to look into ideas that he fleshes out in more detail, and more convincingly, in that book. ... Read More
Rating:  -
Dr. Diamond's first book for which he won nothing but the admiration of some pathetic, lifeless losers like yours truly. But he should have. It was excellent. True that Chimpanzee is the Salieri to Guns' Mozart, but what it lacks in breadth it makes up in simplicity and erudition. I breezed through this book with nary a trip to Wikipedia unlike GGS, which sent me there virtually every day. And yet I still learned a ton.
The chapter titled "The Golden Age That Never Was" was a delightful ... Read More
Rating: -
A good read for anyone who's interested in anthropology or evolution. One of Diamond's main points in this book is that humans are not so different from our biological cousins, the apes. In fact, he says, we are more genetically close to chimpanzees than some species of orangutans are to other species of orangutan. Not to spoil the story, but this is a good read!
Browse for similar items by category:
|
|
|
|
Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Aquarius
Pisces
