![]() The arrow of history - The scent of money - Imperial visions - The law of religion - The secret of success - Part 4. History of Humankind EBOOK Description From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanitys creation and evolution - a number one international best seller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be 'human'. History's biggest fraud - Building pyramids - Memory overload - There is no justice in history - Part 3. ![]() An animal of no significance - The tree of knowledge - A day in the life of Adam and Eve - The Flood - Part 2. Includes bibliographical references and index 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. 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. 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. 100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. ![]()
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