Sapiens

书名：SapiensABriefHistoryofHumankind
作者：YuvalNoahHarari
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ISBN：9781846558238
出版社：HarvillSecker
出版时间：2014-9-4
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：456
豆瓣评分： 8.9

书籍简介：

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 kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical – and sometimes devastating – breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries 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.

作者简介：

DR. YUVAL NOAH HARARI has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in World History. His research focuses on broad historical questions, such as: What is the relation between history and biology? Is there justice in history? Did people become happier as history unfolded?

65,000 people have taken his online course, "A Brief History of Humankind," and Sapiens is a huge bestseller in Israel and is being published in more than 20 languages worldwide. In 2012 Harari was awarded the annual Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

书友短评：

@ Celeste! 作者文笔不错, 读起来很生动. 对我来讲非常mindblowing的几个观点: 智人与其他动物最基本的区别在于其想象力-能构建和表达不存在/抽象的东西; 若多种智人都生存下来, 现代社会将会是什么样子; 农业革命是个人幸福感的倒退, 却促进了群体的发展; 对于早期文字系统的发展, 文字本身的出现只是其中一环, 更重要的是文字信息的分类记录系统; 种族歧视是历史偶然在社会, 经济, 政治和文化的恶性循环中产生的. 还是第一章讲智人起源的部分最powerful. @ 静远浮云 精简版有声书在线收听An Animal of No Significance: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g7lhjThe Cognitive Revolution: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g8hr4The Agricultural Revolution: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g8q51The Scientific Revolution: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04gc0pjhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04gc8p4 @ 悟空 今年用这本书收尾也算是一种应景了。Harari的语言幽默通俗，并且这样的风格丝毫不影响内容的广度和深度。一方面用cognitive/agricultural/scientific三大革命串起人类从史前丛林到当代都市的历史纵轴，横向上也涉及到许多不同的知识领域（生物学、医药、经济学等等）。既宏观、跨学科，读起来还能不让人觉得枯燥虚浮就已经是一门艺术了，结尾还就发展与生态系统的总体幸福值、科技和未来人类的定义问题作了一些哲学探索，可谓是五脏具全。这其中作者的有些想法又挺新颖的，比如从物种繁衍角度来看麦子对人类的“驯化”，将文化概念比为在人群中快速繁殖时而对宿主有害的寄生虫。字里行间能感受到作者的open-mindedness和某种难能可贵的non-value judgment. (接） @ Villea 读完了，信息量太大反而不知道该作何感想了。人类绝顶聪明，却也作茧自缚。我开始怀疑那些自己深信不疑的事情是不是也是被大的社会环境所施加的呢？我们认为的正义、真理，是不是几百年前以及几百年后也就不复存在？这么说来是不是真正的思想自由也是不存在的？那么科学呢？书中提到了“迷信科学技术”，难道科学不是客观的吗？我没有答案。但是，如果一个人不相信着些什么，那么生活也就失去了方向。所以，即使是作茧自缚的myth，我们也只能将自己捆绑起来。

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