Gradually, Homos spread to different continents and evolved under different ecological conditions. You can also join our Science Weekly Facebook group. We were the offspring of insignificant animal called Sapiens Homo (Human) species first evolved on planet earth about 2.5 million years ago from the earlies genus of apes called Southern Ape. (Here is the non-iTunes URL feed).įollow the podcast on our Science Weekly Twitter feed and receive updates on all breaking science news stories from Guardian Science.Įmail Science is now on Facebook. I also understand Harari is a historian and not a paleoanthropologist. As far as I’m concerned the revolution model of modern behaviour was thoroughly refuted by Mcbrearty and Brooks (2000). In Sapiens, Professor Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radicaland sometimes devastatingbreakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific Revolutions.
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Subscribe for free via iTunes to ensure every episode gets delivered. Answer (1 of 70): I understand he’s a proponent of a cognitive revolution 70ka. It is a brilliant, thought-provoking odyssey through human history with its huge. Destined to become a modern classic in the vein of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Sapiens is a lively, groundbreaking history of humankind told from a unique perspective. I much enjoyed Yuval Noah Hararis Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.
Yuval talks about the genesis of this ambitious book, which follows our species from its inception to global domination, and projects into a future where, thanks to synthetic biology and computers, we are destined to become a new cyborg-like species.Īlong the way he outlines some provocative ideas about Homo sapiens, including the emergence of agriculture as a profound mistake and that our ability to fantasise has been the key to our evolutionary success. McClelland & Stewart, History - 512 pages. An up to date set of references can be found on this page.
This week on Science Weekly with Ian Sample we meet historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed book Sapiens. In Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari provides sources for some of the information cited.He is committed to adding to this list on an ongoing basis, to cover as much of the book as possible.
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