5/7/2023 0 Comments Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari![]() ![]() On the other hand, he thinks our dominance causes widespread suffering-both to the majority of humanity and to most other animals on Earth. He thinks, on one hand, that imagined orders unite people and help them cooperate on an unprecedented scale, which is why Homo sapiens ended up dominating the planet. ![]() Harari weighs the pros and cons of each of these. Such ideas, codes, or rules, or visions about how to live ( imagined orders) include religions, empires, and science. He thinks people can cooperate with strangers when they collectively believe in the same ideas and work together because they trust people who follow the same social rules. Along the way, Harari discusses the mechanisms of human society that make people cooperate on a vast scale. Over the course of the book, he explores the history of humankind through several turning points, including the Cognitive Revolution (when, he thinks, humans learned to imagine and believe things that aren’t true, around 70,000 years ago), the Agricultural Revolution (when humans learned how to farm, around 12,000 years ago), and the Scientific Revolution (when humans switched from believing religions to believing science, around 500 years ago). Yuval Noah Harari, a professor and historian, is the author and sole voice of Sapiens. ![]()
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