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From Harari—Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Harari wastes no time in jumping from the big bang to the origin of Homo Sapiens in the first few paragraphs. In the following sections, he talks about a variety of species in the Homo genus in…

From Harari — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

In this chapter, the author starts talking about humankind’s memory capability, a largely biological mechanism. He then goes on to say how there is a limitation inherent in this, namely that you cannot easily sustain…

From Harari — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

This is the last chapter in part 1. The Cognitive Revolution. To put ourselves a bit in time axis, we are now in between 70,000 years ago (the beginning of the cognitive revolution) and 12,000 years ago (the beginning of…

From Harari — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

In this chapter, the author talks about empires and their development throughout history. He notes that there is a stigma associated with empires. That they are inherently evil and exploitative. But he carefully…

From Harari—Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

This chapter (and this section of the book) starts discussing the Agricultural Revolution. I’ve heard that it’s a controversial period. Traditional scholarship says it was a great boon for human…

From Harari — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

In this chapter, the author argues that the advancement of science and the the advancement of expanding political entities through conquering other lands is closely linked…

From Harari — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

This chapter discussed another important symbol of human civilization, money. The author first went through the origin of the money, during hunter-gathering stage and then agricultural revolution. Next, the…