Why you should read 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind'
Yuval Noah Harari's wonderful book, ' Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind ' is an eye-opener, and gives you just enough food for thought. What will follow is a series of excerpts from the book which I picked for this blog post. Read on! 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' by Yuval Noah Harari (Picture source: medium.com) Homo sapiens has kept hidden an even more disturbing secret. Not only do we possess an abundance of uncivilised cousins, once upon a time we had quite a few brothers and sisters as well. We are used to thinking about ourselves as the only humans, because for the last 10,000 years, our species has indeed been the only human species around. A negative hand, one of the oldest types of imagery in the world, found in El Castillo, Chichen Itza, Mexico (Picture source: ideas.ted.com) Yet the real meaning of the word human is ‘an animal belonging to the genus Homo’, and there used to be many other species of this genus besides Homo sapiens. Humans fi...
