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Sapiens is a wide-ranging account of human history that upends the conventional wisdom about our species with novel, even startling, theories about how we developed and where we’re headed.
The bestselling book Sapiens takes the reader from humanity’s remote origins in East Africa; through its spread to societies and empires around the world; and finally to the present, when Sapiens as we know them may be about to disappear. Throughout this journey, Homo Deus author Yuval Noah Harari offers new insights into the importance of language, imagination, and even ignorance in the development of human history.
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Sapiens is a wide-ranging account of human history that upends the conventional wisdom about our species with novel, even startling, theories about how we developed and where we’re headed.
The bestselling book Sapiens takes the reader from humanity’s remote origins in East Africa; through its spread to societies and empires around the world; and finally to the present, when Sapiens as we know them may be about to disappear. Throughout this journey, Homo Deus author Yuval Noah Harari offers new insights into the importance of language, imagination, and even ignorance in the development of human history.
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Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Based on the Book by Yuval Noah Harari
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About Yuval Noah Harari
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari belongs to a nonfiction category known as Big History,
which examines humanity from its origins to the present. Authors such as David Christian (Maps of Time) and Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel) have published bestsellers with a similar scope. Sapiens stands apart, not for the breadth of its subject, but for the originality of its approach. Yuval Noah Harari turns the conventional wisdom about our species on its head with novel ideas about the spread of humankind, its effect on the planet, and
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