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The Third Chimpanzee
This episode explores the profound paradox of human existence, revealing how a tiny genetic difference from chimpanzees underpins our capacity for both extraordinary creation and devastating destruction.
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“This episode explores the profound paradox of human existence, revealing how a tiny genetic difference from chimpanzees underpins our capacity for both extraordinary creation and devastating destruction.”
— Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee
Human evolution, animal behavior, societal paradoxes
If you've ever felt the unsettling tension between our animal instincts and our highest ideals, this will sharpen your understanding of human nature, and this will help you see what to do next.
Jared Diamond, a Pulitzer Prize-winning polymath, draws on biology, anthropology, and history to reveal the deep evolutionary roots of human behavior and civilization's most clear paradoxes.