Paperback | 464 pages

New York TimesBestseller
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanitys creation and evolution that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be human

Yuval Noah Harari is an emerging rock-star lecturer at the nexus of history and science.Sapienstakes readers on a sweeping tour of the history of our species. Hararis formidable intellect sheds light on the biggest breakthroughs in the human storyimportant reading for serious-minded, self-reflective sapiens.Washington Post

One hundred thousand 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?

InSapiens, Professor Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radicaland sometimes devastatingbreakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, paleontology, and economics, and incorporating full-color illustrations throughout the text, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Can we ever free our behavior from the legacy of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come?

Bold, wide-ranging, and provocative,Sapiensintegrates history and science to challenge everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our heritage…and our future.