“The past 200 years, during which ever increasing numbers of Sapiens have obtained their daily bread as urban labourers and office workers, and the preceding 10,000 years, during which most Sapiens lived as farmers and herders,” explains Yuval Noah Harari in his bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, “are a blink of an eye compared to the tens of thousands of years during which our ancestors hunted and gathered.”
