The Development of an Extraordinary Varieties

We humans share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. However humans are the prominent species on the planet — having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and varied forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created breathtaking works of art — while chimps remain animals concerned primarily with the essential necessities of survival. What is it about that two percent difference in DNA that has produced such a divergence between evolutionary cousins? Within this amazing, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly engaging work, renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and scientist Jared Gemstone explores how the incredible human animal, in an amazingly short time, created the capacity to guideline the world . as well as the means to irrevocably destroy it.