Sapiens

Sapiens

 A Brief History of Humankind by

Yuval Noah Harari

A very thought provoking book. Human history said in a different light. I have thoroughly enjoyed it!

This book has 4 parts - Cognitive revolution, agricultural revolution, the unification of humankind and the scientific revolution.

- Ideas created by man - religions, human rights, liberalism

- How humans scripted extinction of megafauna of Australia and America.

- Domestication of selected animals and plants.

- How capitalism mutually helped science.

- A very good intro to Buddhism! Gives lots of hopes on how to deal with sufferings of daily life.