The Third Chimpanzee
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1 episodeJared Diamond on Leaders, Luck, and Irreplaceability
Diamond describes The Third Chimpanzee (1991) as the seedbed for his later books, with individual chapters expanding into Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, and Why Is Sex Fun? He also explains that it is where he argued the great leap forward around 80,000 years ago may have been triggered by changes in the human voice box enabling complex language.
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