The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee: How Our Animal Heritage Affects the Way We Live STEM MIDDLE GRADE and the cover is softly

and the cover is softly padded for little hands to hold

evoking a time of innocence and promise

Until one day a bad thing happens that will change Tideon's life forever: A calamity brings a miracle that makes him ocean royalty

an ominous warning

The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee: How Our Animal Heritage Affects the Way We Live STEM MIDDLE GRADE and the cover is softlyMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys our life cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal origins.