Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Book
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ISBN 10
0099590085
ISBN 13
9780099590088
Category
Non Fiction
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Publication Year
2018
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Pages
434
Subject
Evolution of the Human Race
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Abstract
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 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 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, 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. 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.
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 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, 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. 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.
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Compétences : Lire Débutant complet : non
Thèmes : Culture et civilisation -- Histoire -- Sciences du vivant -- Société
Documents inclus : Texte littéraire original
Descriptif : Biologie, Évolution, Race Humain
Thèmes : Culture et civilisation -- Histoire -- Sciences du vivant -- Société
Documents inclus : Texte littéraire original
Descriptif : Biologie, Évolution, Race Humain
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Dominique Elias
This is one of the best books I have read in my lifetime. Harari sees everything in a new and unusual way. You will never look at the world the same again. My best part of this book is when he questions after all this development in the human world, like the end of big famines, higher life expectancy than predodern humans, better tools thus less work (Cars, tractors...) etc. Did the Individuals of the human race became Happier?
5 years ago