- Human evolution, Social evolution, Nature, effect of human beings on, Humans
Explores the question of what in the less than two percent of genes has made humans different from apes.
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Classical in form, earnest, cool and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Jared Diamond
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Alfa Yaynlar, DEBATE, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- English, German, Russian, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788416396207
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“IT'S OBVIOUS THAT humans are unlike all animals.”
Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author. He has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books, most notably *Guns, Germs, and Steel* (1997), which received multiple awards, including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
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