Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become? Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem"- … ( more)įue definitivamente una lectura interesante. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. 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. 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. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yet today there is only one-homo sapiens. Whether you will agree with him or not, this book raises questions worth thinking about."From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution-a #1 international bestseller-that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. I have stopped awarding stars much, but as a 'popular' history of homo sapiens through history, I would award this 4 stars, considering the scope, the clear narrative personality, and the quality of the audio. He is sometimes amazingly snarky.The reader is British, which can enhance the snarkiness, but is very good, and easy to listen to. He does repeat himself, especially at the beginning of chapters, which made sense once I realized that the book was produced in part from lectures he gives at university.
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Are we happier now than we were one hundred, five hundred, a thousand or fifty thousand years ago? Will we be able to see the destruction of our environment in time to limit the damage? Can we live happily without the traditional comforts of family and tribal identity? Some of the reviews refer (vaguely) to errors.
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His views of our modern world are particularly scornful, and his predictions - or fantasies - of our future are a bit hair-raising.But he asks some very good questions. Harari has some very clear opinions of such things as the transition from hunter-gatherer to agrarian society (bad based on values of freedom and happiness), the effects of monotheism (less tolerant by nature than polytheism, leading to much slaughter - well, yes), empire, especially the European empires, and the driving force of capitalism. The reviews already posted are pretty good, especially the longer ones, and contentious enough to represent a diversity of opinion.Personally, I found the book both fascinating and eye-brow-raising. I listened to this book, and one of the problems of doing that is that it is harder for me to leaf back, run through the table of contents, and get my overall thoughts together.
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In this book, Yuval Noah Harari spans the entirety of human history, from the first steps our known ancestors took to the massive breakthroughs that led us to the world we experience today. How, though, did our species end up being the species that succeeded in the struggle for control of resources and the struggle for the planet? What led our ancestors to switch from foraging, hunting, and gathering, to the creation of cities and empires? How did we begin our belief in gods, in nations, in simple things like human rights? Why do we trust money, how did it start, what inspired books, written language, laws, morals? How have we come so far to be nearly enslaved by our own bureaucracy of timetables, slaves to consuming, slaves to superfluous daily routines? Written byZLIBS Editors Approximately 100,000 years ago there were at least six human species that inhabited the earth.