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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,-paleontology-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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