De animales a dioses

El libro de no ficción de la década.

International bestseller with over 23 million copies sold. Translated into 65 languages. #1 on The New York Times list. Recommended by Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg.

From one of today's most engaging historians comes Yuval Noah Harari's fascinating interpretation of the history of humankind. A national and international bestseller, this book explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."

70,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited Earth. Today, only one remains: ours: Homo Sapiens. How did it manage to prevail in the struggle for existence? Why did our hunter-gatherer ancestors unite to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations, or human rights; to trust in money, books, or laws? How did we end up subjected to bureaucracy, schedules, and consumerism? And what will the world be like in the millennia to come?

In Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari traces a brief history of humankind, from the first humans who walked the Earth to the radical and sometimes devastating advances of the three great revolutions that our species has protagonized: the cognitive, the agricultural, and the scientific. Based on findings from disciplines as diverse as biology, anthropology, and economics, Harari explores how the great currents of history have shaped our society, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we gained happiness as history has progressed? Will we ever be able to free our behavior from the legacy of the past? Can we do anything to influence the future centuries?

Bold, ambitious, and provocative, this book questions everything we thought we knew about human beings: our origins, our ideas, our actions, our power... and our future.