The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

About the book

The Third Chimpanzee argues that humans are astonishingly close to chimpanzees, and then asks the uncomfortable question of how a small genetic gap produced both our greatest creativity and our darkest destructiveness. Jared Diamond uses evolution, history, and anthropology to explain what makes us “unique” while making you see our species as just one animal with unusually high stakes.