Sapiens
Categories: History
A hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species shared the Earth. Today only one is left: us. Yuval Noah Harari asks how Homo sapiens came out on top, and what that story says about where we're headed. Weaving together history and biology, he travels from the dawn of modern thinking about 70,000 years ago to the rise of empires, questioning familiar explanations and connecting ancient turning points to the world we live in now.
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- David Sacks: “Yuval Harari's SAPIENS had a big impact on how I approach VC. The theme of the book is that humans obsess over narratives.”
- Tom Bilyeu: “Yuval Noah Harari also wrote Sapiens, he talks about that sort of thing in both of his books”
- Barack Obama: “Interesting and provocative… It gives you a sense of how briefly we’ve been on this Earth”
- Jared Diamond: “Here is a simple reason why Sapiens has risen explosively to the ranks of an international best-seller. It tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world, and it is written in unforgettably vivid language. You will love it!”
- Shane Parrish: “One of the best books I’ve come across in a long time. Sapiens is a work of “Big History” — in the style of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel— that seeks to understand humanity in a deep way.”
- Tom Hanks: “Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens." That fellow connected an awful lot of dots in that work.”
- Melinda French Gates: “It just was a very, as you said, expansive book for me and for my thinking.”
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