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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Kindle Edition
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Destined to become a modern classic in the vein of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Sapiens is a lively, groundbreaking history of humankind told from a unique perspective.
100,000 years ago, at least six species of human 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, 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. 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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- Publication dateOct. 28 2014
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One hundred thousand 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, Professor 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, and incorporating full-color illustrations throughout the text, Harari 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 behavior from the legacy 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 integrates history and science to challenge everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our heritage...and our future.
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A native of the United Kingdom, AudioFile Earphones Award winner Derek Perkins's audiobook narration skills are augmented by knowledge of three foreign languages, experience of traveling the globe, and a facility with accents. He has narrated numerous titles in a wide range of fiction and nonfiction genres.
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Despite the benefits of fire, 150,000 years ago humans were still marginal creatures. They could now scare away lions, warm themselves during cold nights, and burn down the occasional forest. Yet counting all species together, there were still no more than perhaps a million humans living between the Indonesian archipelago and the Iberian peninsula, a mere blip on the ecological radar.
Our own species, Homo sapiens, was already present on the world stage, but so far it was just minding its own business in a corner of Africa. We don’t know exactly where and when animals that can be classified as Homo sapiens first evolved from some earlier type ofhumans, but most scientists agree that by 150,000 years ago, East Africa was populated by Sapiens that looked just like us. If one of them turned up in a modern morgue, the local pathologist would notice nothing peculiar. Thanks to the blessings of fire, they had smaller teeth and jaws than their ancestors, whereas they had massive brains, equal in size to ours.
Scientists also agree that about 70,000 years ago, Sapiens from East Africa spread into the Arabian peninsula, and from there they quickly overran the entire Eurasian landmass.
When Homo sapiens landed in Arabia, most of Eurasia was already settled by other humans. What happened to them? Thereare two conflicting theories. The ‘Interbreeding Theory’ tells a story of attraction, sex and mingling. As the African immigrants spread around the world, they bred with other human populations, and people today are the outcome of this interbreeding.
For example, when Sapiens reached the Middle East and Europe, they encountered the Neanderthals. These humans were more muscular than Sapiens, had larger brains, and were better adapted to cold climes. They used tools and fire, were good hunters, and apparently took care of their sick and infirm. (Archaeologists have discovered the bones of Neanderthals who lived for many years with severe physical handicaps, evidence that they were cared for by their relatives.) Neanderthals are often depicted in caricatures as the archetypical brutish and stupid ‘cave people’, but recent evidence has changed their image.
According to the Interbreeding Theory, when Sapiens spread into Neanderthal lands, Sapiens bred with Neanderthals until the two populations merged. If this is the case, then today’s Eurasians arenot pure Sapiens. They are a mixture of Sapiens and Neanderthals. Similarly, when Sapiens reached East Asia, they interbred with the local Erectus, so the Chinese and Koreans are a mixture of Sapiens and Erectus.
The opposing view, called the ‘Replacement Theory’ tells a very different story – one of incompatibility, revulsion, and perhaps even genocide. According to this theory, Sapiens and other humans had different anatomies, and most likely different mating habits and even body odours. They would have had little sexual interest in one another. And even if a Neanderthal Romeo and a Sapiens Juliet fell in love, they could not produce fertile children, because the genetic gulf separating the two populations was already unbridgeable. The two populations remained completely distinct, and when the Neanderthals died out, or were killed off, their genes died with them. According to this view, Sapiens replaced all of the previous human populations without merging with them. If that is the case, the lineages of all contemporary humans can be traced back, exclusively, to East Africa, 70,000 years ago. We are all 'pure Sapiens'.
A lot hinges on this debate. From an evolutionary perspective, 70,000 years is a relatively short interval. If the Replacement Theory is correct, all living humans have roughly the same genetic baggage, and racial distinctions among them are negligible. But if the Interbreeding Theory is right, there might well be genetic differences between Africans, Europeans and Asians that go back hundreds of thousands of years. This is political dynamite, which could provide material for explosive racial theories.
In recent decades the Replacement Theory has been the common wisdom in the field. It had firmer archaeological backing, and was more politically correct (scientists had no desire to open up the Pandora's box of racism by claiming significant genetic diversity among modern human populations). But that ended in 2010 when the results of a four-year effort to map the Neanderthal genome were published. Geneticists were able to collect enough intact Neanderthal DNA from fossils to make a broad comparison between it and the DNA of contemporary humans. The results stunned the scientific community.
It turned out that 1–4 per cent of the unique human DNA of modern populations in the Middle East and Europe is Neanderthal DNA. That’s not a huge amount, but it’s significant. A second shock came several months later, when DNA extracted from the fossilised finger from Denisova was mapped. The results proved that up to 6 per cent of the unique human DNA of modern Melanesians and Aboriginal Australians is Denisovan DNA.
If these results are valid – and it’s important to keep in mind that further research is under way and may either reinforce or modify these conclusions – the Interbreeders got at least some things right. But that doesn’t mean that the Replacement Theory is completely wrong. Since Neanderthals and Denisovans contributed only a small amount of DNA to our present-day genome, it is impossible to speak of a ‘merger’ between Sapiens and other human species. Although differences between them were not large enough to completely prevent fertile intercourse, they were sufficient to make such contacts very rare.
How then should we understand the biological relatedness of Sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans? Clearly, they were not completely different species like horses and donkeys. On the other hand, they were not just different populations of the same species, like bulldogs and spaniels. Biological reality is not black and white. There are also important grey areas. Every two species that evolved from a common ancestor, such as horses and donkeys, were at one time just two populations of the same species, like bulldogs and spaniels. There must have been a point when the two populations were already quite different from one another, but still capable on rare occasions of having sex and producing fertile offspring. Then another mutation severed this last connecting thread, and they went their separate evolutionary ways.
It seems that about 50,000 years ago, Sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans were at that borderline point. They were almost, but not quite, entirely separate species. As we shall see in the next chapter, Sapiens were already very different from Neanderthals and Denisovans not only in their genetic code and physical traits, but also in their cognitive and social abilities, yet it appears it was still just possible, on rare occasions, for a Sapiens and a Neanderthal to produce a fertile offspring. So the populations did not merge, but a few lucky Neanderthal genes did hitch a ride on the Sapiens Express. It is unsettling – and perhaps thrilling – to think that we Sapiens could at one time have sex with an animal from a different species, and produce children together.
But if the Neanderthals, Denisovans and other human species didn’t merge with Sapiens, why did they vanish? One possibility is that Homo sapiens drove them to extinction. Imagine a Sapiens band reaching a Balkan valley where Neanderthals had lived for hundreds of thousands of years. The newcomers began to hunt the deer and gather the nuts and berries that were the Neanderthals’ traditional staples. Sapiens were more proficient hunters and gatherers – thanks to better technology and superior social skills – so they multiplied and spread. The less resourceful Neanderthals found it increasingly difficult to feed themselves. Their population dwindled and they slowly died out, except perhaps for one or two members who joined their Sapiens neighbours.
Another possibility is that competition for resources flared upinto violence and genocide. Tolerance is not a Sapiens trademark. In modern times, a small difference in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one group of Sapiens to set about exterminating another group. Would ancient Sapiens have been more tolerant towards an entirely different human species? It may well be that when Sapiens encountered Neanderthals, the result was the first and most significant ethnic-cleansing campaign in history.
Whichever way it happened, the Neanderthals (and the other human species) pose one of history’s great what ifs. Imagine how things might have turned out had the Neanderthals or Denisovans survived alongside Homo sapiens. What kind of cultures, societies and political structures would have emerged in a world where several different human species coexisted? How, for example, would religious faiths have unfolded? Would the book of Genesis have declared that Neanderthals descend from Adam and Eve, would Jesus have died for the sins of the Denisovans, and would the Qur’an have reserved seats in heaven for all righteous humans, whatever their species? Would Neanderthals have been able to serve in the Roman legions, or in the sprawling bureaucracy of imperial China? Would the American Declaration of Independence hold as a self-evident truth that all members of the genus Homo are created equal? Would Karl Marx have urged workers of all species to unite?
Over the past 10,000 years, Homo sapiens has grown so accustomed to being the only human species that it’s hard for us to conceive of any other possibility. Our lack of brothers and sisters makes it easier to imagine that we are the epitome of creation, and that a chasm separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom. When Charles Darwin indicated that Homo sapiens was just another kind of animal, people were outraged. Even today many refuse to believe it. Had the Neanderthals survived, would we still imagine ourselves to be a creature apart? Perhaps this is exactly why our ancestors wiped out the Neanderthals. They were too familiar to ignore, but too different to tolerate.
Whether Sapiens are to blame or not, no sooner had they arrived at a new location than the native population became extinct. The last remains of Homo soloensis are dated to about 50,000 years ago. Homodenisova disappeared shortly thereafter. Neanderthals made their exit roughly 30,000 years ago. The last dwarf-like humans vanished from Flores Island about 12,000 years ago. They left behind some bones, stone tools, a few genes in our DNA and a lot of unanswered questions. They also left behind us, Homo sapiens, the last human species.
What was the Sapiens’ secret of success? How did we manage to settle so rapidly in so many distant and ecologically different habitats? How did we push all other human species into oblivion? Why couldn’t even the strong, brainy, cold-proof Neanderthals survive our onslaught? The debate continues to rage. The most likely answer is the very thing that makes the debate possible: Homo sapiens conquered the world thanks above all to its unique language.
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- ASIN : B00JTCH382
- Publisher : Signal
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- Publication date : Oct. 28 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 16.6 MB
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- Print length : 580 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-0771038525
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- Part of series : A Brief History Series
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Prof. Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) is a historian, philosopher and the bestselling author of 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' (2014); 'Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow' (2016); '21 Lessons for the 21st Century' (2018); the children's series 'Unstoppable Us' (launched in 2022); and 'Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI' (2024). He is also the creator and co-writer of 'Sapiens: A Graphic History': a radical adaptation of 'Sapiens' into a graphic novel series (launched in 2020), which he published together with comics artists David Vandermeulen (co-writer) and Daniel Casanave (illustrator). These books have been translated into 65 languages, with 45 million copies sold, and have been recommended by Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Natalie Portman, Janelle Monáe, Chris Evans and many others. Harari has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford, is a Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's History department, and is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Together with his husband, Itzik Yahav, Yuval Noah Harari is the co-founder of Sapienship: a social impact company that advocates for global collaboration, with projects in the realm of education and storytelling.
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- Reviewed in Canada on May 24, 2016Verified PurchaseThis is one of those books that come across your lap rarely, yet have the power to both educate and entertain. The subject of the book is us: humanity, and how we've evolved over the past many years, how some of our cultural issues have evolved, and where we could go in the future. To say the book is wide-ranging is an understatement: this is a book about everything we care about as humans.
The book examines human history from early days of walking through each of the major revolutions and evolutions: the move to argricultural peoples instead of wander-gatherers; the birth of the concepts of town and cities and the need to manage them; the development of tools, touching on everything to the current day; how societies arose; our warlike nature; the technological leaps that created engines and paper, as well as everything else we depend on; and how we interact with the world around us. To say this is a massive subject is so much of an understatement as to be laughable, yet this book tackles it all, in levels of detail that make it clear why each step in the process is critical and important, and yet never getting bogged down. We've got science, we've got religion, we've got politics, and we've got everything else thrown in too.
All of this in an eminently readable book: you can enjoy the process of reading these pages, seeing how the author builds, chapter over chapter, to spin the big story. You can see where issues arise and how we solved them, or, in some cases, why they still remain problems. There's a lot of words here, without many illustrations to break it up, but if you are patient, the value of this book is immense. Easily the most "important" book I've read for years, covering such a massive subject in a way that I enjoyed reading about. Yes, this will require some effort on your part (not to read, but to understand the big picture) but it all is worth the effort. Want to know why we are the way we are? This book will help you understand exactly that. And it's an interesting read along the way.
- Reviewed in Canada on June 18, 2024Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseThis book is great covering vast amounts of history in an easy to digest and thought provoking way. It's really interesting to have early humans humanized so much and be able to see them as more than mindless apes roaming around until someone decided to invent math and war.
The parts that focused more on the future I found a little less value in though.
- Reviewed in Canada on April 23, 2024Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari is a captivating and insightful book that offers a thought-provoking journey through the history of our species, Homo sapiens.
Harari's narrative spans from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa to the present day, exploring key milestones in human evolution, cultural development, and societal transformations. He examines the cognitive, agricultural, and scientific revolutions that have shaped the course of human history and influenced our understanding of the world.
One of the strengths of this book is Harari's ability to distill complex ideas into accessible and engaging prose, making anthropology and history accessible to a wide audience. He challenges conventional wisdom and invites readers to reconsider fundamental aspects of human existence, including our relationship with other species and the planet.
The book delves into a wide range of topics, from the rise of agriculture and the formation of complex societies to the impact of technology and globalization on contemporary human life. Harari raises thought-provoking questions about the future of humanity and the ethical dilemmas posed by advances in science and technology.
"Sapiens" is a compelling and enlightening read that invites readers to reflect on the past, present, and future of our species. Whether you're interested in anthropology, history, or the human condition, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the forces that have shaped the modern world.
I highly recommend "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" for anyone curious about the origins and evolution of human civilization. Dive into this thought-provoking journey and gain new insights into what it means to be human.
- Reviewed in Canada on December 5, 2021Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseSapiens has been on my reading list for about 10 years and I finally - in semi retirement - got around to picking it up. My practice is to pause after each page of a book and briefly consider what I have learned. I can honestly say that I have found great value on each of Harari's pages. Of course, prehistory cannot by definition be an exact science, but the author's informed grasp and profound insights - are very reasonable, brilliant, and thought provoking - which I imagine was his goal. As an author of books myself, I appreciate the skill of those who tackle a complex subject and deliver it conversationally, simply, absent jargon. This book is immensely readable, exciting, and entertaining. Bravo! - Ira Teich, Canada.
- Reviewed in Canada on February 2, 2025Verified PurchaseOutstanding book!
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- Reviewed in Canada on November 21, 2024Format: Kindle EditionVerified PurchaseThis is a great book humans transformation and evolution. The great insight in the coming future. It is a must read book.
- Reviewed in Canada on December 22, 2024Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseGreat book. Extremely interesting and informative
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- Totally BluntReviewed in Turkey on July 2, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars It is a compelling read...
Verified PurchaseI like the "brief history" style books, because they put eras in context. I'd enjoyed A Brief History of Everything for that reason and I enjoyed Sapiens, too. I particularly appreciated how Harari doesn't seem to have intellectual taboos and can give us the pros and cons of different phases of our political history. I wasn't unaware of everything in the book, but I did get some insights. The narrative is simple and devoid of unnecessary embellishment, which I like in literature, popular science and history books. I know that I WILL seek to read Harari's other books.
- washbrolReviewed in the United Arab Emirates on February 29, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible wisdom and perspective
Verified PurchaseFor the curious amongst us, this book delivers incredible outside-in perspective connecting the dots on who we are as human beings, where we come from, why we behave the way we do, and the motivations, fears and precedents that underlie so much of how and why we behave as societies and sometimes defy societal norms to behave as individuals out for our own personal gains.
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SRthanReviewed in Mexico on May 9, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Me encantó la edición
Verified PurchaseEl libro llegó en buenas condiciones; solo un poco doblado en una esquina pero realmente no me importó. La edición es muy bonita (compré el de plasta blanda), contiene imágenes a color y todo es de muy buena calidad. Recomendado.