Still, he looks deeply into the development of religions and widens the definition of what a religion may be people may refer to godless communism but communism has all of the tenets of a religion, for example. Harari presents viewpoints that take supernatural beings - or God - out of the equation and looks at the scientific evidence of what is known about human development. "Sapiens" is a book that will make many readers uncomfortable and will outrage others. It is not a chronology into the details of various empires - though they are mentioned - but rather the insights that empires, as well as sentience, the move from foraging to agriculture, small roaming bands of people to city states to empires, etc., have had on human development during the past 70 millennia. "Sapiens" isn't a detailed account of humans in world history but rather a history of humans in the world. LANGUAGE Homo Deus : A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari 21 Lessons for the 21st Century : Truly mind-expanding. 14-Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" is one of those books that either reveals something new in almost every sentence or confirms something you thought you might know.
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