TY - BOOK AU - Harari,Yuval Noah AU - Purcell,John AU - Watzman,Haim TI - Sapiens: a brief history of humankind SN - 9780099590088 AV - CB113.H4 H3713 2014 PY - 2014///] CY - London PB - Vintage Books KW - Civilization KW - History KW - Human beings KW - World history KW - Chronology, Historical N1 - This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2014; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kindoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power... and our future ER -