In a world often consumed by the ephemeral and the immediate, sapiens offers a counterbalance by spanning epochs and civilizations. The book focuses on the cognitive revolution of the upper paleolithic period and the advent of agriculture during the n...  Read More

While the first three chapters on early humans is very informative and enjoyable, the rest of the book becomes a polemic. There is moralizing throughout the book. The several chapters become an environmentalist screed.

He starts skipping around large swaths of time and editorializing about how human rights don't exist and imperialism (genocide) is actually cool. Most people today successfully live up to the capitalist-consumerist ideal.

The only concept i find scarier than those presented in this book is that it is on the best seller list. The motivation of sapiens to achieve cannot be found in his academic world.

It seems that he sent out an army of grad students to accumulate information and write about different periods of history. A real buzzkill with no real suppositions on the why behind any of it. The author is one of those writers who tries to use his w...  Read More

Islam does not come into existence until the prophet muhammed, which is the 7th century ce – so off by around a thousand years. Why is one religion right and the others bunk?