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#JustFinished Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (dice.camp)

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#JustFinished Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

I feel like he spent too much time working at being cutesy and not enough at internal consistency. It was an amusing book, however. Taken as a light historical fiction about the run-up to modern life, it's good enough.

One example of the issues with the book follows:
He sets up the straw man of biological essentialism, then knocks it down with social consctructs.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] check out David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything if you want a facinating book on this kind of thing that includes a little response to Sapiens (if you haven't come across it already).