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Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. I know this book has been excoriated heavily in certain anthropological and biological circles for not being outright wrong but for not being factually completely correct. And that's fine by me, I guess. The book starts off with the earliest of human history, naturally then talks about evolution. It then touches upon the most important topics in human history hitherto. Namely, money, religion, the agricultural and industrial revolution, and the like. It
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Just as great as everyone tells you it is. I do think it gets a little less technical and more essay-like in the last third, but it's still fun to read.
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Loved the way Yuval addresses the conundrums of history in such a unbiased manner. Occasionally, raising intriguing questions spanning from the past to future of homo sapiens.
Indeed a must read.
Indeed a must read.
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