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100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens.
How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, tim...more

Published 2014 by Harvill Secker (first published 2011)

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Jul 25, 2015Maciek rated it it was ok

Sapiens: 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. It will certainly not be the next A Brief History of Time, which is often named as the world's top unfinished popular bestseller.
Both A Brief History of Time and Sapiens share a similar, worthy goal - to explain complex issues in a way which can actually be understood and comprehended by most people...more

Sep 05, 2013Moran rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I believe I am relatively familiar with history in general, and I'm usually not very excited about reading more about it. But this book was something else.
Beautifully written and easy to read, this book just made me want to know more and more about how the author thinks the world evolved to what it is today. Revolution by revolution, religion by religion, conception by conception, things were simplified and yet still maintained valid points - and it was never boring.
The best thing about it was...more

Mar 30, 2013Liad Magen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This book had changed my life, the way I think, the way I precept the world.
I think it should be an obligatory book for everyone on this planet.

Sep 23, 2018Emily May rated it it was amazing

Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don't know what they want?

What a fantastic book. I can see why everyone from Bill Gates to Barack Obama was raving about it. It's an extremely compelling, accessible history - almost like a novelization - of humankind.
I've read a few of these 'brief history of the world' books, most notably A History of the World in 100 Objects and Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. I liked both, but neither is as engag...more

May 01, 2017William2 rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: science, translation, 21-ce, biology, illustrated, evolution, race, israel, myth

This book is a superficial gloss on human history. Nice try but it excludes too much data in favor of an overarching conceptual view to be deeply interesting. Stopped reading for reasons detailed below at p. 304 of 416.
Considering the outlandishness of some of its claims—the downside of the Agricultural Revolution, the joys of Empire—the book seems weirdly under-sourced. The bibliography is beyond meagre. Don't get me wrong, I like a little informed speculation as much as anyone. Take for exampl...more

May 05, 2015Marc Gerstein rated it did not like it

Had I stopped reading after the first section, I’d have given this a five stars and whined that the Goodreads platform doesn’t aloe reviewers to go higher. But I didn’t stop. I kept reading, . . . until it got so bad, I found myself unable to do more than skim, and eventually, to just skipping large chunks.
It starts out as a fascinating discussion of the development and rise of our species, homo sapiens. But starting in the second section on the Agricultural Revolution, Harari shift gears and dr...more

Sep 26, 2017Adina rated it it was ok

It is again unpopular opinion time! It seems it becomes a rule for me not to enjoy a book that everyone seems to love. Well, someone has to. Here we go with the review. Prepare your tomatoes and raw eggs (someone actually threw a raw egg at me once for fun but it bounced from my bum )
Sapiens’ beginning was fantastic. I loved the author’s voice and the information about the early days of the human kind was fascinating. I did not read any non-fiction about the origin of humans so I was excited to...more

Jan 28, 2019Manny rated it really liked it

Shelves: linguistics-and-philosophy, science, history-and-biography

I see many people complaining about the wild leaps of logic and the lack of footnotes - but honestly, what did you expect in a 500 page book, not even with small print, that's supposed to give you a summary of all history from the emergence of Homo sapiens to the present day? Personally, I thought the basic idea was terrific: the author has taken it upon himself to defend the Book of Genesis and show you that it's all true. I have seen creationists attempt the same thing and fail miserably, with...more

Jul 09, 2016

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Petra X rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2016-read, 2016-150-reviews, reviewed, popculture-anthropology, history

The book was too much a basic primer for me, at least to start with, but that's probably because I've read too many books on our origins biologically and culturally. Once the author had us settled into the civilization of cities he waxed romantically (as authors on this subject quite often do) on the life of the hunter gatherer and its perfection. (I've just finished Sebastian Junger's Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging and there was more of that.) If it was all so perfect then more of us would...more

Jan 28, 2019Sean Barrs the Bookdragon rated it really liked it

This is a hugely ambitious book; it takes a very broad approach, condensing huge topics into short chapters in an attempt to provide a basis for the development of our entire species. The parts I found most interesting were regarding ecology and man’s interaction with the ecosystem.
Human history is that of ecological disaster. Wherever we go, whatever we do, we fuck up the ecosystem and leave our mark of destruction. This is not a new phenomenon, it’s something Sapiens have always done. When we...more

Dec 09, 2017BlackOxford rated it it was amazing

Choose Your Fictions Carefully
There are far too many fascinating assertions in this book to even mention. But for me the most fascinating is Harari’s idea of the Cognitive Revolution which took place about 70,000 years ago. 'We might call it the Tree of Knowledge mutation. Why did it occur in Sapiens DNA rather than in that of Neanderthals? It was a matter of pure chance, as far as we can tell. But it’s more important to understand the consequences of the Tree of Knowledge mutation than its caus...more

Feb 08, 2018Michael Finocchiaro rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, political-theory, history, read-in-french, american-21st-c

History and Sociology for Dummies, this book is almost irrecoverably watered down intellectually. Sapiens does make some interesting points and probably opens a few debates, but it disappointed me. There are lots of soundbites here, especially the oft-quoted one about the agricultural revolution being 'history's greatest ripoff', but they remain soundbites because they never really reach a conclusion.
The book starts out alright was the hunter-gatherer civilizations are discussed in some detail...more

Feb 28, 2015Andy rated it liked it · review of another edition

The only parts of this book that really grabbed my attention were the chapters on early humankind, and especially the interaction between Homo Sapiens and other Homo species. The rest of it is a very pedestrian and basic journey through some aspects of human history, with the author making a lot of sweeping assertions and tending towards a rather vague and disembodied explanation of things like culture, money, etc. These sort of general explanations might be good for someone new to the study of...more

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rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: evolution, science, non-fiction, all-time-favourites, ecology

Rating 5* out of 5. This is one of those rare books which is superbly written, intelligent and mind-altering. I am convinced by this author's arguments and my view of the human condition has changed permanently.
I thought this would be a book that would delve lavishly in later human evolution, but it is does not. It discusses it briefly and moves on, concentrating its effort on the times of agricultural revolution and forward. It is a masterpiece of anthropology.
'Ever since the Cognitive Revolu...more

Nov 17, 2018Lisa rated it really liked it

'Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don’t know what they want?'
Now, that is a mean cliffhanger on page 466!
I am so done with Sapiens, I am willing to enter the realm of posthuman Homo Deus out of spite for my species. During the time it took me to read the 'short' history of humankind, written in funny sarcastic prose, painting with broad brush strokes what made us develop into this bizarre population of 7 billion people, I have rated this brick of a b...more

Mar 16, 2016David rated it it was amazing

Shelves: anthropology, psychology, religion, archaeology, evolution, sociology, economics

This is an excellent book about the history of humans, covering all aspects; evolution, anthropology, geography, psychology, religion, ideologies, and the future of humans. Physically, the book is beautiful; the glossy paper makes it heavy as well. What really makes the book interesting is the unique points of view that the author, Yuval Harari, brings to life.
For example, early in the book, Harari mentions that chimps and sapiens (humans) can only organize in groups of up to 150, without organi...more

Jan 28, 2019Manny rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: linguistics-and-philosophy, science, history-and-biography

- Pssst! Eve!
- Who's there?
- A friend.
- What kind of friend? Come on out, don't be shy.
- I'm not Shai-
- You are.
- I'm not. Who told you that?
- I just figured it out myself. Oh, there you are. What are you doing curled round that branch?
- Waiting for a chance to talk to you, Eve. So tell me, where are you going today?
- I'm gathering. See, Adam and me are hunter-gatherers and we take turns. Today he's hunting and I'm gathering. He's going to catch a rabbit, and I'm going to find mushrooms and wil...more

Mar 10, 2017Darwin8u rated it liked it

'The ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language...fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively.'
-- Yuval Noah Harari , Sapiens
The writing style reminds me a bit of Bob Wright's The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, Mann's 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, or Sagan's Cosmos. It is obviously a book directed at non-academics interested in 'Big History'.
If I...more

Oct 25, 2016Simon Clark rated it it was amazing

Fantastic. Absolutely sublime. I don't think I've ever read a book with such grand scope, or a book that promises to cover so much and actually delivers. Dealing with the biggest questions about our species - Why are we here? Why are we the way we are? What does our happiness mean? - Harari writes precisely and with shrewd use of metaphor, providing answers that seem intuitively right but leading us to think further than we have before. The links between giant forces that control our world such...more

Sep 19, 2014·Karen· rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Beginner's guide to sociobiology.
And since I am a complete beginner, perfect for me.
I finished this some six months ago: interesting to see what has remained: gossip, something I hate and rarely indulge in, is an important factor in creating social cohesion, (so perhaps I should revise my attitude to it). True, when you think about it: you and I can only gossip about someone we both know. And it might be important to know who is forming an alliance behind our back. However, as social glue, goss...more

Every once in a decade, a book comes along that has the capacity to radically change the way we think about matters of substance. This book is one of them.
It asks fundamental questions about our evolution as humans and offers counter intuitive, tangential viewpoints. It tests our thinking, provokes new trains of thought.
The book is highly readable and an immense provocation. It must be read, whether or not you are particularly interested in mankind, its history, its evolution or its future. I...more

Nov 26, 2015Jim rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, 1audio, 2non-fiction, historical, science

Very well read by Derek Perkins, I highly recommend this book to everyone. Whatever your beliefs, you'll find plenty of food for thought in this relatively brief outline of our history from a middling animal to whatever the hell we are now. It's about 15 hours long, but never dragged a bit. I made excuses to listen every minute that I could & even downloaded the ebook to reread sections for clarification & to ponder a bit more at length. I highly recommend this method. (I'm putting this...more

Nothing new! Everything I read in this book to some extent I learned at the anthropology courses taught by academician Balaceanu-Stolnici.
Harari is a good writer, but one with a very decided agenda. I had to point out how surprisingly little he seems to have read on quite a number of essential topics. It would be fair to say that whenever his facts are broadly correct they are not new, and whenever he tries to strike out on his own he often gets things wrong, sometimes seriously. So we should no...more

May 17, 2016Otis Chandler rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I haven't read a ton of 'history of the world' books, but this was fascinating. Highly recommended. I think the author is incredibly good at explaining and simplifying big concepts. He take on complex things like religion & capitalism and explains them in very simple terms that you likely hadn't thought about before.
The history of religion chapter was very interesting. I hadn't thought about the fact that many early religions were animists or polytheists, or dualists. Nor the fact that they...more

Jul 27, 2012Ehud Amir rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

A Brief History of the Right Questions
At the 16th Century, Peter Bruegel the Elder has painted his Landscape with the Fall of Icarus: a farmer works in the field, ships sail by – and at the bottom, at the corner, almost invisible, Icarus falls to the sea. The Icarus Myth is remembered for thousands of years; the farmer in the painting had lived and died in anonymity. Why, therefore, had Bruegel painted such a small and marginal Icarus and such a central farmer?
“A Brief History of Humankind” by Y...more

Mar 27, 2018Trevor rated it it was ok

A friend of mine at work recommended I read this during the week – and it is hard not being struck by the odd coincidence of that. Not so much him recommending a book to me, he’s done that before, but this book is very similar to The Patterning Instinct and I only read that a week or so ago. And that’s odd too, since it is years since I’ve read a book on this theme, despite it being a bit of a favourite at one time. So, reading two books on much the same topic, covering lots and lots of the same...more

Mar 10, 2015David rated it liked it

Shelves: 21st-century, anthropology, academic, non-fiction, history, science

Sapiens was an occasionally interesting but ultimately disappointing read.
Where Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel was a transformative investigation of the origins of civilization, Yuval Harari's Sapiens is a divisive, ideologically driven [Cognitive Revolution = Cultural Determinism] which twists data to fit a pre-existing theory. Back of it all, the entire book, is the final chapter where Harari frets about genetic engineering, cyborgs, and AI [artificial intelligence].
Readers, unless c...more

Nov 11, 2018Macy_Novels at Night rated it really liked it

Detailed history with a splash of the authors opinion. Like many, I am fascinated with the history of the human race, and enjoy learning as much as I can possibly absorb. This book provides a good timeline of how we came to be, yet attempts to answer questions that we will never have the answers to. The author answers the questions with certainty that he is stating fact, and I found it a little humorous at times. The book took twists and turns that were unexpected, such as discussing the treatme...more

Aug 06, 2018Magdalena rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Once in a while I like to challenge myself and read something that wouldn't be my usual genre. Sapiens fits that bill perfectly. I haven't got that much interest in anthropology but I do want to educate myself more in that field and I feel that I learnt a lot from reading it.
Intelligent, very well-written, engaging and definitely thought-provoking. Not everyone will agree with Harari's take on things but I enjoyed it and will read more of his books in the future.

Jan 29, 2017Julie rated it it was ok

Shelves: origins, 21st-century, non-fiction, israel

To be fair: 2.5 stars, solidly in the middle of a 'stinking rotten book' and 'exceptionally brilliant'.
To do as Harari does, I speak only 'generally' when I say this is a nice little synopsis of Anthropology One OH One, Physical and Cultural, with a lean towards the Cultural.
In Ancient Days, when I was in First Year Anthro, I had two brilliant tutors -- one in each of the sub-disciplines noted above, who led us in wondrous discussions on all the possibilities of humankind, past present and fut...more

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Professor Harari was born in Haifa, Israel, to Lebanese parents in 1976. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is now a lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He specialized in World History, medieval history and military history. His current research focuses on macro-historical questions: What is the relation between history and biolo...more

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