Sapiens
A popular non-fiction book by Yuval Noah Harari about the history and impact of Homo sapiens.
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"I read this magnificent book called Sapiens. And in the book, it said if you took somebody from the 1600s and planted them in the 1700s, the world wouldn't be that remarkably different. But if you took somebody from like the early 1900s and you tr..."
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"I finally went back and read, because I don't think I'd ever really read the full book before, Sapiens by Yuval Harari. This is part of my — I'm in a big research effort now to really understand thinking and the evolution of the human mind."
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"If you read the book Sapiens and understood that humans got here because we had a remarkable ability to believe in stories that maybe the orangutan could not believe."
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"I was like, 'Okay, well, I should probably read Sapiens cuz everyone is reading Sapiens and it was kind of boring and I got stuck on it for like three months"
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