The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzees

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzees

How our animal heritage affects the way we live
by Jared Diamond (1991)

How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the capacity to reverse all that progress overnight.

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How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
by Jared Diamond (2005).

Whereas Guns, Germs and Steel explains why history unfolded differently on different continents with varying successes, Collapse gives the other side of the coin: how societies crumble.

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