Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind pdf

尤瓦尔·诺亚·哈拉里 教授于 1976 年出生于以色列海法，父母是黎巴嫩人。他获得了博士学位。 2002年毕业于牛津大学，现为耶路撒冷希伯来大学历史系讲师。
他专攻世界史、中世纪史和军事史。 他目前的研究重点是宏观历史问题：历史和生物学之间的关系是什么？ 智人与其他动物的本质区别是什么？ 历史上有正义吗？ 历史有方向吗？ 随着历史的展开，人们变得更快乐了吗？
尤瓦尔·诺亚·哈拉里 教授还教授名为“人类简史”的 MOOC（大规模开放在线课程）。
尤瓦尔·诺亚·哈拉里 教授在 2009 年和 2012 年两次获得 Polonsky 创意和独创性奖。2011 年，他获得了军事史学会的 Moncado 军事史杰出文章奖。

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind pdf 尤瓦尔·诺亚·哈拉里

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.