The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee

CONTENTS

About the Author

Also by Jared Diamond

List of Illustration

PART ONE: JUST ANOTHER SPECIES OF BIG MAMMAL

1. A Tale of Three Chimps

2. The Great Leap Forward

PART TWO: AN ANIMAL WITH A STRANGE LIFE CYCLE

3. The Evolution of Human Sexuality

4. The Science of Adultery

5. How We Pick Our Mates and Sex Partners

6. Sexual Selection, and the Origin of Human Races

7. Why Do We Grow Old and Die?

PART THREE: UNIQUELY HUMAN

8. Bridges to Human Language Appendix: Neo-Melanesian in One Easy Lesson

9. Animal Origins of Art

10. Agriculture’s Two-Edged Sword

11. Why Do We Smoke, Drink, and Use Dangerous Drugs?

12. Alone in a Crowded Universe

PART FOUR: WORLD CONQUERORS

13. The Last First Contacts

14. Accidental Conquerors

15. Horses, Hittites, and History Appendix: A proto-Indo-European Fable

16. In Black and White Appendix: Indian Policies of Some Famous Americans

PART FIVE: REVERSING OUR PROGRESS OVERNIGHT

17. The Golden Age that Never Was

18. Blitzkrieg and Thanksgiving in the New World

19. The Second Cloud

Epilogue: Nothing Learned, and Everything Forgotten?

Further Reading

Acknowledgements