A Short Summary of Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind has topped charts on Amazon for weeks now. Bill Gates said, "I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history... You'll have a hard time putting this down..." This book attempts to answer the most obscure of question and gives the most intriguing answers. How did we come to believe in gods, nations, and human rights? Have we become happier as history has unfolded? And what will our world be like in the millenia to come? The word "revolution" means "a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system". The byproducts we have created of our environment have altered our behavior forever, in the forms of an agricultural, industrial, and scientific revolution. The future of the human species relies, as such, only in our imagination.

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