Monday, December 17, 2018

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.


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