Sapiens. Man is intelligent. A brief history of humanity

This short history of humanity is not the traditional chronological list of events and rulers that we see in many textbooks and popular science publications. Yuval Noah Harari gradually reveals to the reader how Homo sapiens from a humble species of apes became Man and reached the modern peaks of economic, technological and intellectual development.

Starting with the Cognitive Revolution seventy thousand years ago, the author shows how our biological species settled on the planet, how it carried out the Agrarian Revolution about twelve thousand years ago, how finally the Industrial and Scientific Revolutions of the Modern Age gave Man powerful tools with which he can not only develop technically, but also change his own biology. Moreover, humanity is now even capable of destroying itself. And this can happen both as a result of the use of nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction, and as a result of the creation of intellectually developed beings based on Sapiens with abilities that are currently impossible to predict.