#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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  • Kostyn@niagara.social
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    9 months ago

    @DejahEntendu@dice.camp @bookstodon@a.gup.pe 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).