Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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2014 book by Yuval Harari For Latin word Sapiens, see Sapiens (disambiguation). Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Hebrew: קיצור תולדות האנושות, Qitzur Toldot ha-Enoshut) is a 2011 book by the Israeli military historian Yuval Noah Harari, based on a series of lectures he gave at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It was first published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011, and in English in 2014. The book surveys the history of humankind, beginning in the Stone Age and ending in the 21st century. The account relies on a fusion of the natural sciences with the social sciences. Summary[edit] Harari's work places human history within a framework, with the natural sciences setting limits for human activity and social sciences shaping what happens within those bounds. The academic discipline of history is the account of cultural change. Harari surveys the history of humankind from the Stone Age up to the 21st century, focusing on Homo sapiens. He divides the history of H. sapiens into four major parts: The Cognitive Revolution (c. 70,000 BCE, the start of behavioral modernity when imagination evolved in H. sapiens). The (first) Agricultural Revolution (c. 10,000 BCE, the developme…
Shared fictions — money, nations, religions, corporations — let humans cooperate in massive numbers. That is our superpower.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari is a groundbreaking book that explores the evolution of human beings from their earliest beginnings to the present day. It examines the development of our species from its origins in Africa to its spread across the globe, and the major
The Cognitive Revolution
70,000 years ago, language evolved to gossip and imagine. Stories beat strength.
The Agricultural Revolution
Wheat domesticated us. Surplus enabled cities — and inequality.
The unification of humankind
Money, empire, and universal religions slowly merged isolated tribes into one global society.
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"You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death."
"How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order? The first step is to never admit that the order is imagined."