Sapiens a Brief History of Humankind by yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens a Brief History of Humankind by yuval Noah Harari

کتاب انسان خردمند اثر یووال نوح هراری

• چاپ سال ۲۰۱۴
• داخل کتاب خط خوردگی دارد
• قطع: رقعی
• جلد: شومیز

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one.

Us. Homo sapiens.

How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power…and our future.

ABOUT 13.5 BILLION YEARS AGO, MATTER, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang, The story of these fundamental features of our universe is called physics.
About 300.000 years after their appearance, matter and energy started to coalesce into complex structures, called atoms, which then combined into molecules. The story of atoms, molecules and their interactio ns is called chenmistry.

About 3.8 bilion years ago, on a planet called Earth, certain molecules combined to form particularly large and intricate structures called organisms. The story of organisms is called and biology.

About 70.000 vears ago, organisms belonging to the species Homo sapiens started to form even more elaborate structures called cultures. The subsequent development of these human cultures is called history.
Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it up about 12,000 years ago. The Scientific Revolution, which got under way only 500 years ago, may well end history and start something completely diferent. This book tells the story of how these three revolutions have affected humans and their fellow organisnms.

There There were humans long before there was history. Animals much ike modern humans first appeared about 2.5 million years ago. But for countless generations they did not stand out from the myriad other organisms with which they shared their habitats.