Books Details
Author : Yuval Noah Harari Pages : 18 pages Publisher : Penguin Random House
Grupo Editorial Language : spa ISBN-10 : B0741F5XBN ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
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
