Yuval Harari's international bestseller is a thrilling account of humankind's extraordinary history - from insignificant apes to rulers of the world

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Vorwort
What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human.

Autorentext

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher and the global bestselling author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the graphic adaptation series Sapiens: A Graphic History, and Unstoppable Us, his first series of books for children. His books have sold over 55 million copies in 65 languages. He co-founded Sapienship - an international social-impact company focused on education and storytelling - with his husband, Itzik Yahav. Harari has a PhD from the University of Oxford and is currently a history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a distinguished research fellow at the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

Klappentext

In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going. Sapiens is a thrilling account of humankind's extraordinary history - from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age - and our journey from insignificant apes to rulers of the world.

Zusammenfassung
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical and sometimes devastating breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions.