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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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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.

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Call Number

909 HAR s

Publisher

London, UK : Vintage (Penguin Random House Group)., 2015

Collation

512p; bw; pbk; 128x197 mm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780099590088

Classification

900

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Edition

First Vintage Edition

Subject(s)

civilization
World History
Life Sciences
Human Beings
Technology and Civilization
Chronology, Historical
Cognition and Culture

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Statement of Responsibility

Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir, 2011

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