Diamond is an eminently accessible writer: one of a small number of practising scientists who unite bodies of knowledge to present provocative but well-reasoned perspectives on questions of life, origins, and meaning. 27 years on, how well does the science of TTC hold up?įirst, a note on readability. With our collective future imperilled by threats from climate change to antiscientific fundamentalism, this is an apt moment for a retrospective on one of the 20 th century’s most influential books on human origins. TTC has been continuously in print ever since, influencing both research agendas and the popular imagination. TTC is the first of a series of popular science books in which polymath scientist Jared Diamond has synthesised knowledge from fields as diverse as anthropology, comparative genetics, ecology, and history to introduce the public to novel worldviews. When The Third Chimpanzee appeared in 1992, the claim that humans should be classified with the common and the pygmy chimpanzee was novel. This article was originally published by Countercurrents.
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