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Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari)

Also known as Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

A work by Yuval Noah Harari, first published in 2011

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  • What korrents draws from it

    Cooking was the best thing fire did for early humans, Language let early Sapiens gossip, and reliable gossip about who could be trusted let small bands grow into larger ones, Most people cannot intimately know or gossip effectively about more than about 150 people …

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    Yuval Noah Harari

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Key facts

First published
20112
Edition korrents quotes
Vintage, 2015 edition; first published in Hebrew 2011; translated by the author with John Purcell and Haim Watzman3
Claims on korrents
351

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Cooking was the best thing fire did for early humans (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Language let early Sapiens gossip, and reliable gossip about who could be trusted let small bands grow into larger ones (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Most people cannot intimately know or gossip effectively about more than about 150 people (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Human organisations still hit a critical threshold at around 150 people (opens korrents.com)1

  5. The limited liability company is among humanity's most ingenious inventions (opens korrents.com)1

  6. An imagined reality is not a lie (opens korrents.com)1

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Sources

  1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Vintage, 2015 edition; first published in Hebrew 2011; translated by the author with John Purcell and Haim Watzman) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Q12411055 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)
  3. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Vintage, 2015 edition; first published in Hebrew 2011; translated by the author with John Purcell and Haim Watzman) (books.google.com) (opens books.google.com)

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