"Wonderful....JaredDiamond conducts his fascinating study of our behavior and origins with anaturalist's eye and a philosopher's cunning." --DianeAckerman, author of A Natural History of the SensesIn this fascinating, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly entertaining work, renowned Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor and scientist Jared Diamond, author of Gun, Germs, and Steel, explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world . . . andthe means to irrevocably destroy it. We human beings share 98 percentof our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on theplanet--having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate anddiverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and createdbreathtaking works of art--while chimps remain animals concerned primarilywith the basic necessities of survival. What is it about that two percentdifference in DNA that has created such a divergence between evolutionarycousins? The Third Chimpanzee is a tour de force, an iconoclastic, compelling, sometimes alarming look at the unique and marvelous creature that is the human animal.