DR. YUVAL NOAH HARARI has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in World History. His research focuses on broad historical questions, such as: What is the relation between history and biology? Is there justice in history? Did people become happier as history unfolded?
65,000 people have taken his online course, "A Brief History of Humankind," and Sapiens is a huge bestseller in Israel and is being published in more than 20 languages worldwide. In 2012 Harari was awarded the annual Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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; 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, Dr 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, palaeontology and economics, he 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 behaviour from the heritage 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 challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power ... and our future.
本书评仅针对第十九章内容。 小学时看过一个关于太阳演化的科普片,说是大约50亿年以后,太阳将演化为红巨星,体积膨胀并吞并数个行星,包括地球在内。 也就是说,地球终将灭亡。 后来学了物理,知道这事虽不是千真万确,但也八九不离十了。当然,50亿年是个过于漫长的时间,人...
评分尤瓦尔的这本人类简史是一本非常惊艳之作,作者以极其广阔的思路和相当毒辣的笔触,从人类心智发展的角度分析了人类文明的变迁。 开头不久的一个结论就让我对这本书留下了极其深刻的印象——智人优于动物之处,在于智人可以构建共同的“想象”/谎言/神话,而共同神话使得人类...
评分人从哪里来?要到哪里去?这是古今中外哲学家们契而不舍思索的问题。从神创论到达尔文演化论,对第一个问题的解答似已尘埃落定,如今大部分人相信人从猴子演变而来,一小部分人仍坚信人是上帝(神)的独特创造。第二个问题的答案却随着人类社会几何速度的变化发展越发扑朔迷...
评分乘地铁,车还没到,抬头看电视屏幕,瞥见一个穿白大褂的中年男人正在讲解割双眼皮的三种方式,对面的广告牌上,一个美丽的女人骄傲地展示着整容之后的五官,大眼睛,双眼皮,尖下巴,眼神迷离,一脸茫然。 我并不想对整容做道德评价,而是想还原一个事实:我们已经生活在一个...
评分文/曼佳 最近一直被人推荐《人类简史》这本书,一个70后的以色列历史学家写的风靡全球的著作。全书讲的是人类的故事,从历史又是从哲学的角度,讲述人从生物学的起源是什么样的,从宇宙的哪里来,要到未来的哪里去的故事,这样的书,是要很安静的环境和很安静的心才能好好读完...
前面还可以,后面作者价值观输出太多
评分终于看完这本漫长的书,感觉还挺参差的。开头几章令我惊为天书,特别喜欢作者脑洞打开的(文科)方式,感觉自己这么学个样儿简直就足以招摇撞骗下半生用了。可惜最后一章实在令人失望,虽然是全书最长的一章,却是最缺乏洞见的一部分,作者短板暴露无疑——毕竟是个文科人士啊。
评分Fantastic read. Not boring at all and presents a coherent story about "human" history.
评分很少看到有新的观点,但很好地把庞杂的已有观点串联起来,大致梳理了人类历史的脉络
评分精简版有声书在线收听 An Animal of No Significance: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g7lhj The Cognitive Revolution: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g8hr4 The Agricultural Revolution: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g8q51 The Scientific Revolution: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04gc0pj http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04gc8p4
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