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Key insights from Yuval Noah Harari's
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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A cautionary tale for our species that everyone should read.
Yuval Noah Harari proposes that intelligent design might one day become the baseline of all life, and that perhaps “superhumans” will replace us. That is, unless we take the time to understand our origins as a species.
Read this Snapshot if you:
- Want to understand the origins of our species
- Are worried that humanity is progressing too quickly
- Care about the future and our place in it
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Introduction
Physics tells us the story of the universe through the Big Bang, a cosmic event that occurred approximately 13.5 billion years ago. Only within the last 70,000 years of that unfathomable timespan did Homo sapiens first appear.
Since then, humanity has undergone three major revolutions: the Cognitive Revolution, the Agricultural Revolution, and the Scientific Revolution. The latter began only about five centuries ago, and we’re still living in it now, progressing so rapidly that its outcomes are still a mystery.
The Cognitive Revolution
Scientifically speaking, we aren’t the...
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