Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa.

Yet it is wrong to judge thousands of years of history from the perspective of today.

This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.

Yet why should individuals care about this evolutionary calculus?

‘Cooperation’ sounds very altruistic, but is not always voluntary and seldom egalitarian.

Gender is a race in which some of the runners compete only for the bronze medal.

How did money succeed where gods and kings failed?

Egoism is altruism.