Download or read book The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee written by Jared Diamond and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel More than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. 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.