The Third Chimpanzee

The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)

Paperback, 432 pages

English language

Published Jan. 3, 2006 by Harper Perennial.

ISBN:
978-0-06-084550-6
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1) "The gorilla must have branched off from our family tree slightly before we separated from the common and pygmy chimpanzees. The chimpanzees, not the gorilla, are our closest relatives. Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans."

2) "[The] most hotly debated problem in the evolution of human reproduction is to explain why we ended up with concealed ovulation, and what good all our mistimed copulations do for us. For scientists, it's no answer just to say that sex is fun. Sure, it's fun, but evolution made it that way. If we weren't getting big benefits from our mistimed copulations, mutant humans who had evolved not to enjoy sex would have taken over the world."

3) "We wouldn't mourn the shrinking cultural diversity of the modern world if it only meant the end of self-mutilation and child suicide. But the societies whose cultural practices …

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Subjects

  • Social Science
  • Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Sociology
  • Anthropology - General
  • Life Sciences - Biology - General
  • Social Science / Anthropology / General
  • Human Evolution
  • Effect of human beings on
  • Nature
  • Social evolution