Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

March 2, 2022 History

Download Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari PDF eBook free. The “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” contains the complete human history from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical.

Description of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

In “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” 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. It explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. It is quite extensive in its scope despite the sub-title. Each concept and chapter of human history is explained with compelling examples, from economics to history to biology to psychology and so on. In some ways, it seems we are heading forward, with less violence than ever before, new forms of consciousness, life continuing as we could not imagine it, but continuing all the same.

For e.g., Mr. Harari explains that ecological degradation is not the same as resource scarcity and that in fact, our resources are constantly increasing, and are likely to continue to do so. But in more ways, Sapiens is an indictment. It is undeniable that “a significant proportion of humanity’s cultural achievements owe their existence to the exploitation of conquered populations,” that “there is no justice in history” and that perhaps happiness is the act of “synchronizing one’s personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions.”