Presentation
Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens traces how Homo sapiens rose from an ordinary primate to a species capable of reshaping the planet. It links biology, culture, and economics to show how shared stories, religions, nations, and money enabled large-scale cooperation, while also fueling conflict and inequality. The narrative is considered important for its sweeping, provocative synthesis of human history and its willingness to question comforting myths about progress. Along the way, it offers ethical insight into how power, technology, and imagined orders shape moral choices, inner life, and the treatment of other humans and animals.