Sapiens- A Graphic History- The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) by Yuval Noah Harari
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Web ID: 11775532Very Informative
A great way to discover our history.
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A soaring overview of our species
Yuval Noah Harari, a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, takes the expansive beginnings and histories of Homo sapiens and places it in the light for all to see, as he observes our time on Earth. He begins by explaining how humanity once included several different Homo species (all Homo species are humans), but the gradual extinction of other Homo species left Homo sapiens as the only humans. And then came language, fiction, money, religion, farming, science, industry, capitalism, and consumerism. Through it all, he pauses to examine, with roaming intellect and the open-eyed curiosity of a child, why humans are the way we are. For instance, why are patriarchies present in nearly every society? How has money transformed the way we interact with each other? How have religion and nationhood—things that exist only in the collective imagination—dramatically reshaped how we collaborate with each other, for better or for worse? This book is for people who seek to understand: (1) how the genus Homo evolved to only one species—Homo sapiens; (2) how money, credit, capitalism, and consumerism began and morphed; and (3) how all the various fictions binding people together, from religions to nationhood to liberalism, came to be, and how long they might last.
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Anthropology light
The book was easy to read and had some interesting drawings. It explained a lot of the reasons we are the way we are without going into too much depth on any one subject. It did have a slant on "sapiens bad" some might take issue with. It did not really provide much concrete in the way of facts to back up the story of mankind. I really wanted more facts.
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it draws you in.
very interesting read - clever illustrations add to the experience.
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