NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee

NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee: Why Do We Destroy Nature? / Tackling Inequality

Why Do We Destroy Nature? / Tackling Inequality

Ep6 | 49m 20s

NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee: Will We Be Visited By Aliens? / Can We Eradicate Genocide?

Will We Be Visited By Aliens? / Can We Eradicate Genocide?

Ep5 | 49m 20s

NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee: The Animal Origins of Art / How We Choose Our Mates

The Animal Origins of Art / How We Choose Our Mates

Ep2 | 49m 19s

NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee: Agriculture's Mixed Blessings/How Agriculture Differentiated

Agriculture's Mixed Blessings/How Agriculture Differentiated

Ep4 | 49m 20s

NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee

The NHK SPECIAL: JARED DIAMOND'S RISE OF THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE is a series of lectures featuring Jared Diamond — a UCLA professor and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Socieities— who traces the footsteps of humanity, from the apes to the challenges of today.

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Video thumbnail: NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee Why Do We Destroy Nature? / Tackling Inequality

NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee

Why Do We Destroy Nature? / Tackling Inequality

Jared Diamond looks deep into history for clues to help us overcome today's major threats

Ep6 | 49m 20s

Why Do We Destroy Nature? / Tackling Inequality

Ep6 | 49m 20s

Video thumbnail: NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee Will We Be Visited By Aliens? / Can We Eradicate Genocide?

NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee

Will We Be Visited By Aliens? / Can We Eradicate Genocide?

Jared Diamond looks to evolution for clues to the big questions of our era.

Ep5 | 49m 20s

Will We Be Visited By Aliens? / Can We Eradicate Genocide?

Ep5 | 49m 20s

Video thumbnail: NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee Agriculture's Mixed Blessings/How Agriculture Differentiated

NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee

Agriculture's Mixed Blessings/How Agriculture Differentiated

Nothing changed human history more than the birth of agriculture, giving us culture.

Ep4 | 49m 20s

Agriculture's Mixed Blessings/How Agriculture Differentiated

Ep4 | 49m 20s

Video thumbnail: NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee The Science of Monogamy / Our Mysterious Lifespan

NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee

The Science of Monogamy / Our Mysterious Lifespan

Why do humans live in monogamous couples?

Ep3 | 49m 20s

The Science of Monogamy / Our Mysterious Lifespan

Ep3 | 49m 20s

Video thumbnail: NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee The Animal Origins of Art / How We Choose Our Mates

NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee

The Animal Origins of Art / How We Choose Our Mates

What makes us human?

Ep2 | 49m 19s

The Animal Origins of Art / How We Choose Our Mates

Ep2 | 49m 19s

Video thumbnail: NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee What Separates Humans from Animals?

NHK SPECIAL - Jared Diamond's Rise of the Third Chimpanzee

What Separates Humans from Animals?

Dr. Diamond looks to evolution for clues and dives into the origins of human language.

Ep1 | 49m 19s

What Separates Humans from Animals?

Ep1 | 49m 19s

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