#5 in Nature & environment
The Third Chimpanzee
- 432
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Third Chimpanzee” is a wide-ranging, thoughtful look at how much of human behaviour grows out of our animal past. Jared Diamond, a physiologist, tests the traits we call uniquely human against evidence from related species. Some readers keep in mind that it dates from 1991, while finding it solid and interesting. Curious non-specialists who want the big picture of the human animal are its ideal readers.
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About the book
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal is a 1991 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author explores concepts relating to the animal origins of human behavior. The book follows a series of articles published by Diamond, a physiologist, examining the evidence and its interpretation in earlier treatments of the related species, including cultural characteristics or features often regarded as particularly unique to humans. The book was released in the United Kingdom in 1991 by Radius under the title The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee: How Our Animal Heritage Affects the Way We Live and in the United States in 1992 by HarperCollins under the title The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. In 2014, Diamond published an adapted version for young people with Seven Stories Press titled, The Third Chimpanzee for Young People.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 50 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 25% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Nature & environment average of 8.1. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.5 | 8 | 16% |
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 42 | 84% |
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How long is The Third Chimpanzee?
It has 432 pages — longer than 67% of the ranked books in Nature & environment.
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