BarryBobPosthole
07-23-2017, 11:07 AM
by Yuval Noah Harari.
I may have gushed about this book before, but bear with a forgetful curmudgeon.
First off, this is a book, obviously, about human history. Secondly, its written by an historian not an anthropologist. So I read it with a critical eye. There are so many types of historians today that its really necessary to do research on the historian as much as the history when you pick something up. Especially a 'New York times bestseller'.
But human history is more than science. And historians set down more opinions than scientists do.
So this book has some opinions too, and honestly that is the part that interested me the most. Especially when he writes about what separated Sapiens from the other human species, Neanderthals and Homo Erectus.
This would make a good audiobook if you have some windshield time.
This same guy has a new book out now about human future.
Innersting.
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I may have gushed about this book before, but bear with a forgetful curmudgeon.
First off, this is a book, obviously, about human history. Secondly, its written by an historian not an anthropologist. So I read it with a critical eye. There are so many types of historians today that its really necessary to do research on the historian as much as the history when you pick something up. Especially a 'New York times bestseller'.
But human history is more than science. And historians set down more opinions than scientists do.
So this book has some opinions too, and honestly that is the part that interested me the most. Especially when he writes about what separated Sapiens from the other human species, Neanderthals and Homo Erectus.
This would make a good audiobook if you have some windshield time.
This same guy has a new book out now about human future.
Innersting.
BkB