Sapiens (édition 2022)

With a new and unpublished preface from the author."A wonder."The World of BooksA hundred thousand years ago, the Earth was inhabited by at least six different species of hominids. Only one survived.We, Homo Sapiens.How did our species manage to dominate the planet?Why did our ancestors unite their forces to create cities and kingdoms?How did we manage to create the concepts of religion, nation, human rights? Depending on money, books and laws? To become slaves of bureaucracy, schedules, mass consumption? And what will our world look like in the coming millennium?A true publishing phenomenon, translated into thirty languages, Sapiens is a bold, learned and provocative book.A professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Yuval Noah Harari combines history with science to question all that we thought we knew about humanity: our thoughts, our actions, our heritage... and what we thought about.