As the name of the book is saying that it is going to focus on the Homo sapiens. Not only this but you are going to find a lot of the topics from the nature, science, and the evolution as well as the evolutionary biology.
What are the effects of the biology on humans and what are the effects of the biology on the human activities. Not only the biological factor but there are a lot of the factors effecting different human traits and human activities. The history of the humans and what are the major points when humans took big leaps. All of these things are waiting for you in the book to read and enjoy them in this book. The author of this book is an Israeli author. Yuval Noah Harari is not only a very good historian but a very good science author and a well-known professor as well.
He is also having some of the good awards due to his amazing work. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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Leave this field empty. Harari surveys the history of humankind from the evolution of archaic human species in the Stone Age up to the twenty-first century, focusing on Homo sapiens.
He divides the history of Sapiens into four major parts: [4]. Harari's main argument is that Sapiens came to dominate the world because it is the only animal that can cooperate flexibly in large numbers. He argues that prehistoric Sapiens were a key cause of the extinction of other human species such as the Neanderthals, along with numerous other megafauna. He further argues that the ability of Sapiens to cooperate in large numbers arises from its unique capacity to believe in things existing purely in the imagination, such as gods, nations, money, and human rights.
He argues that these beliefs give rise to discrimination — whether that be racial, sexual or political and it is potentially impossible to have a completely unbiased society. Harari claims that all large-scale human cooperation systems — including religions, political structures, trade networks, and legal institutions — owe their emergence to Sapiens' distinctive cognitive capacity for fiction.
Harari's key claim regarding the Agricultural Revolution is that while it promoted population growth for Sapiens and co-evolving species like wheat and cows, it made the lives of most individuals and animals worse than they had been when Sapiens were mostly hunter-gatherers, since their diet and daily lives became significantly less varied.
Humans' violent treatment of other animals is indeed a theme that runs throughout the book. In discussing the unification of humankind, Harari argues that over its history, the trend for Sapiens has increasingly been towards political and economic interdependence.
For centuries, the majority of humans have lived in empires, and capitalist globalization is effectively producing one, global empire. Harari argues that money, empires, and universal religions are the principal drivers of this process.
Harari sees the Scientific Revolution as founded on innovation in European thought, whereby elites became willing to admit to, and hence to try to remedy, their ignorance. He sees this as one driver of early modern European imperialism and of the current convergence of human cultures. Harari also emphasises the lack of research into the history of happiness, positing that people today are not significantly happier than in past eras.
Humans have, in Harari's chosen metaphor, become gods: they can create species. Harari cites Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel as one of the greatest inspirations for the book by showing that it was possible to 'ask very big questions and answer them scientifically'. First published in Hebrew in and then in English in , the book was translated into 45 languages as of June Anthropologist Christopher Robert Hallpike reviewed the book and did not find any 'serious contribution to knowledge'.
Hallpike suggested that ' He considered it an infotainment publishing event offering a 'wild intellectual ride across the landscape of history, dotted with sensational displays of speculation, and ending with blood-curdling predictions about human destiny.
Science journalist Charles C.
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