Sapiens : Une brève histoire de l’humanité

 100,000 years ago, the Earth was inhabited by at least six different species of hominid. Only one has survived. We, the Homo Sapiens. How did our species manage to dominate the planet? Why did our ancestors join forces to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to create the concepts of religion, nation and human rights? To depend on money, books and laws? How did we become slaves to bureaucracy, timetables and mass consumption? And what will our world look like in the next millennium?

A veritable publishing phenomenon, translated into some thirty languages, Sapiens is a bold, erudite and provocative book. Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Yuval Noah Harari blends history with science to challenge everything we thought we knew about humanity: our thoughts, our actions, our heritage... and our future.