The Third Chimpanzee
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The Third Chimpanzee is a popular science book by Jared Diamond that explores human evolution and behavior by comparing Homo sapiens to our closest primate relatives.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Third Chimpanzee canonical | 2 |
| The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T307833 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Third Chimpanzee Context triple: [Jared Diamond, notableWork, The Third Chimpanzee]
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A.
The Blank Slate
The Blank Slate is a book by Steven Pinker that critiques the notion of human minds as entirely shaped by environment and argues for the significant role of innate human nature, making it a foundational text in evolutionary psychology debates.
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B.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a widely influential book by Jared Diamond that explores how geography, environment, and the distribution of domesticable plants and animals shaped the unequal development of human societies.
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C.
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe is Jane Goodall’s reflective memoir and scientific account of her decades-long field research and close relationships with wild chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park.
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D.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson that argues for the unification of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities into a single, coherent framework of knowledge.
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E.
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind
"Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind" is a foundational textbook by David M. Buss that explains human thought and behavior through the lens of evolutionary theory and adaptation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Third Chimpanzee Target entity description: The Third Chimpanzee is a popular science book by Jared Diamond that explores human evolution and behavior by comparing Homo sapiens to our closest primate relatives.
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A.
The Blank Slate
The Blank Slate is a book by Steven Pinker that critiques the notion of human minds as entirely shaped by environment and argues for the significant role of innate human nature, making it a foundational text in evolutionary psychology debates.
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B.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a widely influential book by Jared Diamond that explores how geography, environment, and the distribution of domesticable plants and animals shaped the unequal development of human societies.
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C.
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe is Jane Goodall’s reflective memoir and scientific account of her decades-long field research and close relationships with wild chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park.
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D.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson that argues for the unification of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities into a single, coherent framework of knowledge.
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E.
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind
"Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind" is a foundational textbook by David M. Buss that explains human thought and behavior through the lens of evolutionary theory and adaptation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book about human evolution
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non-fiction book ⓘ popular science book ⓘ |
| author | Jared Diamond ⓘ |
| centralThesis | Humans are a third species of chimpanzee closely related to common chimpanzees and bonobos ⓘ |
| compares |
Homo sapiens
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bonobos ⓘ chimpanzees ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| examines |
causes of human self-destructive behavior
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evolution of human agriculture ⓘ evolution of human art ⓘ evolution of human language ⓘ evolution of human sexuality ⓘ evolution of human societies ⓘ |
| explores |
differences between humans and other primates
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similarities between humans and other primates ⓘ |
| followedBy | Guns, Germs, and Steel ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle |
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
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linked to:
The Third Chimpanzee
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| hasGenre |
evolutionary psychology literature
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science writing ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
continuity between humans and other animals
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evolutionary origins of human culture ⓘ long-term survival of human civilization ⓘ |
| influenced | public understanding of human evolutionary biology ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularizing ideas about human evolution for a general audience ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| publisher | HarperCollins ⓘ |
| structure | collection of thematically linked chapters ⓘ |
| subject |
anthropology
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art and culture ⓘ comparative primatology ⓘ environmental destruction ⓘ evolutionary biology ⓘ genocide ⓘ human behavior ⓘ human evolution ⓘ human uniqueness ⓘ language evolution ⓘ sexual selection ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general readers ⓘ |
| usesMethod | comparative analysis of humans and other primates ⓘ |
| warnsAbout |
environmental degradation caused by humans
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risk of human self-extinction ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Third Chimpanzee Description of subject: The Third Chimpanzee is a popular science book by Jared Diamond that explores human evolution and behavior by comparing Homo sapiens to our closest primate relatives.
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