Sapiens. De animales a dioses

The nonfiction book of the decade.

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

From one of the most interesting historians of our time, here is Yuval Noah Harari's fascinating interpretation of the history of humanity. 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 species of humans 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 subjugated by 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 humanity, from the first humans who walked the Earth to the radical and sometimes devastating advances of the three great revolutions our species has undergone: the cognitive, agricultural, and scientific. Drawing 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 in 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 future centuries?

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