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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Q12411055)

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2011 non-fiction work by Yuval Noah Harari
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    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    2011 non-fiction work by Yuval Noah Harari
    • A Brief History of Humankind
    • Brief History of Humankind

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    קיצור תולדות האנושות (Hebrew)
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    6 Gardens of Adonis / ON SLOW WHEAT, AND POP THEORIES OF HOW WE BECAME FARMERS / Yuval Harari waxes eloquent on this point, asking us to think ‘for a moment about the Agricultural Revolution from the viewpoint of wheat’. / ... / The answer, according to Harari, is that wheat did it by manipulating Homo sapiens to its advantage. ‘This ape’, he writes, ‘had been living a fairly comfortable life hunting and gathering until about 10,000 years ago, but then began to invest more and more effort in cultivating wheat.’ / ... / But to [...] Harari’s retelling is appealing, we suggest, not because it’s based on any evidence, but because we’ve heard it a thousand times before, just with a different cast of characters. (English)

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