Jared Diamond with Sandra Tsing Loh: The Third Chimpanzee-The Next Generation

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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?
Join Jared Diamond, the Pulitzer-winning author of "Guns, Germs and Steel," for an enlightened discussion about and for the next generation and the future they'll help build.
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[@winupdate7854]

Thank you professor your books have opened my eyes to so many things

[@pranavsambamurti7746]

This man is a real genius!

[@pranavsambamurti7746]

The only thing I disagree with him on is the wiping out of the big mammal species in North America. I now think this was due to a meteor strike which also exacerbated glacier melt and sea rise during the Unger Dreas period. Hunter Gatherers generally do not wipe out their prey, but treat them and their habit with respect.....

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Americans are not made of the same stuff as in days of yore. Most don't know this ... And not enough of them know about our resource depletions, others look the other way.