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A review by aliciagw
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
informative
slow-paced
4.0
Interesting nonfiction about Homo Sapiens and their role on Earth throughout time and possibilities for the future.
It is a mashup of evolutionary biology, history, modern issues, and future prediction. It is rather broad in scope, and includes some factual scientific information along with some theoretical ideas, which the author does a relatively good job in distinguishing between the two. I think this book was panned by scholarly scientific people, but I personally believe it is a wonderful book for the majority of people to get a better understanding of topics related to humanity. It isn't always easy to read heavily scientific books, and this was relatively easy to read and understand for those who don't have a hard science background. It was written in a relatively engaging way. I think those are good things.
I found some parts of it extremely interesting, and some parts somewhat dry and dull. I think that was just due to my personal interests. Being broad in scope, the book covered quite a few topics and not all of them were of interest to me. I really enjoyed the first part of the book, kinda checked out in the middle, and reengaged in the final portions of the book. I would say the book leaves you with interesting things to ponder.
It is a mashup of evolutionary biology, history, modern issues, and future prediction. It is rather broad in scope, and includes some factual scientific information along with some theoretical ideas, which the author does a relatively good job in distinguishing between the two. I think this book was panned by scholarly scientific people, but I personally believe it is a wonderful book for the majority of people to get a better understanding of topics related to humanity. It isn't always easy to read heavily scientific books, and this was relatively easy to read and understand for those who don't have a hard science background. It was written in a relatively engaging way. I think those are good things.
I found some parts of it extremely interesting, and some parts somewhat dry and dull. I think that was just due to my personal interests. Being broad in scope, the book covered quite a few topics and not all of them were of interest to me. I really enjoyed the first part of the book, kinda checked out in the middle, and reengaged in the final portions of the book. I would say the book leaves you with interesting things to ponder.