Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Name: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari

by Yuval Noah Harari · 2011

🏷 History & Biography 📅 2011 📄 443pp

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Harari sweeps from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century to tell the story of our species—how Homo sapiens came to dominate the planet and what that dominance has cost us.

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Sapiens argues that Homo sapiens achieved global dominance not through superior strength or intelligence, but through a unique cognitive ability: the power to believe in shared myths. Money, nations, human rights, corporations—none exist in nature. They are fictions we collectively believe in, and that collective belief is the source of all large-scale human cooperation.

Harari divides history in…

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