By Jared Diamond
Greater than ninety eight percentage of human genes are shared with species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is guy. Jared Diamond surveys out life-cycle, tradition, sexuality and damaging urges either in the direction of ourselves and the planet to discover the ways that we're uniquely human but nonetheless stimulated by means of our animal origins.
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9 % of their genes with us, and that the important differences between humans and chimps were due to just a few genes. Would you still think it is okay to put chimps in cages and to experiment on them? Consider those unfortunate mentally-defective people who have much less capacity to solve problems, to care for themselves, to communicate, to engage in social relationships, and to feel pain, than do apes. What is the logic that forbids medical experiments on those people, but not on apes? You might answer that apes are 'animals', while humans are humans, and that is enough.
What once seemed absurd—our evolution from apes—actually happened. Yet the discoveries of many missing links have only made the problem more fascinating, without fully solving it. The few bits of new baggage we acquired—the two per cent of our genes that differ from those of chimps—must have been responsible for all of our seemingly unique properties. We underwent some small changes with big consequences rather quickly and recently in our evolutionary history. In fact, as recently as a hundred thousand years ago that zoologist from outer space would have viewed us as just one more species of big mammal.
But among our unique qualities are two that now jeopardize our existence: our propensities to kill each other and to destroy our environment. Of course, both propensities occur in other species: lions and many other animals kill their own kind, while elephants and others damage their environment. However, these propensities are much more threatening in us than in other animals because of our technological power and exploding numbers. There is nothing new about prophecies to the effect that the end of the world is near if we do not repent.