One hundred thousand 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; to trust money, books, and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables, and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?
In Sapiens, Professor 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. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, paleontology, and economics, and incorporating full-color illustrations throughout the text, Harari explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behavior from the legacy of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come?
Bold, wide-ranging, and provocative, Sapiens integrates history and science to challenge everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our heritage...and our future.
尤瓦尔·赫拉利，1976年生，牛津大学历史学博士，现为耶路撒冷希伯来大学的历史系教授，青年怪才，全球瞩目的新锐历史学家。
他擅长世界历史和宏观历史进程研究。在学术领域和大众出版领域都有很大的兴趣。
他的《人类简史》一书让他一举成名，成为以色列超级畅销书，目前这本书已授20多个国家版权，在历史学之外，人类学、生态学、基因学等领域的知识信手拈来，根据图书改变的课程上传YOUTUBE后风靡全球，拥有大批青年粉丝。写书，视频课程之外，他还开设有专栏。