Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas. Yet today there is only one - homo sapiens.
The discovery of ignorance - The marriage of science and empire - The capitalist creed - The wheels of industry - A permanent revolution - And they lived happily ever after - The end of Homo sapiens - Afterword: The animal that became a god Summary One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. The arrow of history - The scent of money - Imperial visions - The law of religion - The secret of success - Part Four. History's biggest fraud - Building pyramids - Memory overload - There is no justice in history - Part Three. He is the author of the popular science bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014), Homo. The cognitive revolution - An animal of no significance - The tree of knowledge - A day in the life of Adam and Eve - The flood - Part Two. Yuval Noah Harari (Hebrew: born 24 February 1976) is an Israeli public intellectual, historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "Previously published in a slightly different form in Great Britain in 2014 by Harvill Secker, a division of the Random House Group Ltd."-Title page verso. "First published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 by Kinneret, Mora-Bitan, Dvir."-Title page verso. Purcell, John Watzman, Haim cartographer Gower, Neil Translation of: Kitsur toldot ha-enoshut. Object Details translator Harari, Yuval N.
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Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come? Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power.and our future. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology, and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical - and sometimes devastating - breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific Revolutions. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations, and human rights to trust money, books, and laws and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables, and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? In Sapiens, Dr. 100,000 years ago, at least six species of human inhabited the earth.