Sapiens A Brief History Of Humankind By Yuval Noah Harari

Unfortunately this enormous task is the book s own undoing.

Sapiens a brief history of humankind by yuval noah harari. The account is situated within a framework that intersects the natural sciences with the social sciences. 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. A brief history of humankind is a book bound to appear on a large number of coffee tables and favorite lists and be picked up even by those who normally would not find the time for reading. Or so it attempts to be.

The book surveys the history of humankind from the evolution of archaic human species in the stone age up to the twenty first century focusing on homo sapiens. It will certainly not be the next a brief history of time which is often named as the world s top unfinished popular bestseller. An up to date set of references can be found on this page.