The book I chose for my project was The Third Chimpanzee, by Jared Diamond. The major idea explored in the book is how the modern human being, homo sapiens, came to be. Jared Diamond uses his own knowledge and the research of others to analyze what small variations in the genetic makeup of the ancestral ape lead to the enormous change towards human behavior. This change could have been cause by several things, including climatic or environmental changes, mutations in DNA, and the enlargement of the human brain, which lead to the advancement of language and tools. The author wrote this book to help fulfill his own personal questions, and help educate not only the scholar, but the average joe as well.
