Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the bat.. Lire la suite
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100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens.
In Sapiens,
Dr 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. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology,
paleontology and economics, he explores how the currents of history have
shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even
our personalities. 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?
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?