SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND

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Condición del ejemplar: Very Good. One hundred thousand years ago, at least six species of humans walked the Earth. Today there is only one: us. How did Homo sapiens, an unremarkable ape, come to dominate the planet? In this bold and wide-ranging bestseller, historian Yuval Noah Harari surveys the entire history of our species, from the first humans to roam East Africa to the scientific and technological breakthroughs of the present day. He organizes the story around three great revolutions. The Cognitive Revolution gave our ancestors the ability to cooperate in large numbers by believing in shared stories, such as gods, nations and money. The Agricultural Revolution tied us to the land, created new hierarchies and, Harari provocatively argues, did not necessarily make individual lives happier. The Scientific Revolution, still underway, has given us unprecedented power, along with unsettling questions about where that power is leading us. Combining history, biology, economics and philosophy, Sapiens challenges much of what we think we know about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power and our future. Thought-provoking, accessible and full of surprising insights, this is a book that has changed how millions of readers see the human story.