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 ...
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
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. Book jacket.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond survetys our life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both toward ourselves and the planet ; to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal origins."--Back cover.
The Third Chimpanzee for Young People
Triangle Square’s The Third Chimpanzee for Young People is a book for future generation and the future they’ll help build.
Natural Experiments of History
This book consists of eight comparative studies drawn from history, archeology, economics, economic history, geography, and political science.
Through a Window
In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting a more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relatives.
The World Until Yesterday
In The World Until Yesterday, Diamond reveals how traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window onto how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms - and ...
Chimpanzee Cultures
While demonstrating that both nature and culture play important roles in the behavior of the Pan species, this book affords often astonishing insights into the workings of the individual chimpanzee mind and of chimpanzee and bonobo social ...
Chimpanzee Politics
This excellent book achieves the dual goal which eludes so many writers about animal behavior -- it will both fascinate the non-specialist and be seen as an important contribution to science." -- Times Literary Supplement
