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.
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.
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...
評分这本书给我的观感,一言以蔽之,即为“标新立异”。作者结合了自己所涉猎过的许多方面,试图从一个全新的广阔的角度来解读人类史,但由于他的涉猎广而不精,以至于我不得不说,他几乎在任何一方面都做得不好。仅就几个我比较了解的领域而言,作为一个半外行,我仍然能够挑出他...
評分《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...
評分 評分《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...
圓滑,然而並沒有聰明深刻到可以圓滑的程度。既想錶達自己老於世故的幻滅,又要強行賣情懷給讀者,邏輯大霧。越往後寫越顯筆力不逮,儲備不足還不用心。
评分作者文筆不錯, 讀起來很生動. 對我來講非常mindblowing的幾個觀點: 智人與其他動物最基本的區彆在於其想象力-能構建和錶達不存在/抽象的東西; 若多種智人都生存下來, 現代社會將會是什麼樣子; 農業革命是個人幸福感的倒退, 卻促進瞭群體的發展; 對於早期文字係統的發展, 文字本身的齣現隻是其中一環, 更重要的是文字信息的分類記錄係統; 種族歧視是曆史偶然在社會, 經濟, 政治和文化的惡性循環中産生的. 還是第一章講智人起源的部分最powerful.
评分快樂,極難定義,於科技水平和生産力無關,每個人有自己的所謂快感穩定值。一個現代人類,可能終其一生無法體會,原始人獵殺猛獁的快感。
评分快樂,極難定義,於科技水平和生産力無關,每個人有自己的所謂快感穩定值。一個現代人類,可能終其一生無法體會,原始人獵殺猛獁的快感。
评分精簡版有聲書在綫收聽 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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