The Third Chimpanzee for Young People pdf by Rebecca Stefoff
The Third Chimpanzee for Young People: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft, and nuclear weapons all within a heartbeat of evolutionary time. Now, faced with the threat of nuclear weapons and the effects of climate change, it seems our innate tendencies for violence and invention have led us to a crucial tipping point. Where did these traits come from? Are they part of our species immutable destiny? Or is there hope for our species’ future if we change?
With fascinating facts and his unparalleled readability, Diamond intended his book to improve the world that today’s young people will inherit. Triangle Square’s The Third Chimpanzee for Young People is a book for future generation and the future they’ll help build.
"At the same time, humans are animals—a species of big mammal. This contradiction is our most fascinating feature. We still have a hard time understanding what it means and how it came to be. On one hand, between us and all other species lies a gulf that leads us to call them “animals” and to see them as separate from us. We think that centipedes, chimpanzees, and clams share some animal features that we
don’t have, or that we have human features that they don’t share. Those human features include communicating through language, enjoying art, making complex tools, wearing clothes, and darker traits such as killing mass numbers of our own and other species."