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.
《人类简史》是本很火的书,火到国内市场还出现仿冒作了。但是在本右派看来,这不过说明,学院左派分子依然死不悔改。换了一套术语,其实换汤不换药。 在评论或者说批评此书之前,我先大概介绍一些老左派分子和新左派分子们的区别。 老左派分子,就是马大胡子开始的。他们...
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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...
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。
评分绝对的神作!
评分格局宏大,诚实,清醒,作者尝试在打通自然科学,文学,社科的限制,将之统一在科学的视域下,人类的演化之路由此较为清晰地铺陈开来,绝对的天才之作。
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
评分本书的高潮在Cognitive Revolution,之后关于农业革命的部分夹杂太多私货,关于经济、宗教和意识形态的观点并不新颖,但是作者文笔不错,比较好的博采众长。最后的1/3部分略冗长。
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