Sapiens A Brief History Of Humankind

A brief history of humankind as of price update date info new york times bestseller.

Sapiens a brief history of humankind. A summer reading pick for president barack obama bill gates and mark zuckerberg. Tackling evolutionary concepts from a historian s perspective sapiens. About 70 000 years ago organisms belonging to the species homo sapiens started to form even more elaborate structures called cultures. 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.

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. A brief history of humankind describes human development through a framework of three not necessarily orthodox revolutions. The agricultural revolution c. The brief discussion of the evolution of the humans and how they came across all the way up till now and how they evolve from the humans of the stone age to the twenty first century.

70 000 bce when sapiens evolved imagination. He divides the history of sapiens into four major parts. Today there is just one. Three important revolutions shaped the course of history.

A brief history of humankind price. Other species had big brains too but what made homo sapiens so successful is that we are the only animals who are capable of large scale cooperation. About 70 000 years ago homo sapiens underwent a cognitive revolution harari writes which gave them the edge over their rivals to spread from east africa across the planet. 10 000 bce the development of agriculture.

100 000 years ago at least six species of human inhabited the earth. As the name of the book is saying that it is going to focus on the homo sapiens. The cognitive the agricultural and the scientific. The subsequent development of these human cultures is called history.

The unification of humankind the gradual consolidation of human political organisations.