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I wish this book exist when I was a student. Btw the most exciting part for me is Masters of Fiction and the most complicated is Sex, Lies, and Cave Painters. Yuval didn't give me inscription history proof here so I'm still kinda throwing so many questions up in the air.
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Une bd très bien pensée et très instructive. Chapeau.

pft what a waste of time! Did learn a thing or two but mostly I knew a lot of the stuff already. I think it's good for most people who have no idea about human history and/or learning it for the first time.

If he was going to choose only two religions in his timeline then he should've just skipped them altogether. There was no mention of Judaism and Hinduism (one of the oldest practices). Funny that he would include Buddhism at all because it actually (in a sense since Gautam was a Hindu) branched away from Hinduism. But again, how much he would add on just a two pages timeline *shrug* ?

The book started out fine, or actually VERY GOOD, but became extremely annoying with its stupid comic skits here and there. Like dude, are you writing human origins or writing funny comic shit for a magazine?

I don't think a kid or even middle schoolers will be able to read the long-ass dialogues and understand the science shit with those biology pictures showing/explaining birth. Ok, idk about middle school but certainly not for kindergarten kids. I think this book would be kinda suitable for high schoolers imo.

Even forgetting about everything above (I say frick it), the overall book was just too sloppy for me. Could've been AMAZING if he would've made it detailed and added important information. Like dude, there's so much in human history, and is that really the best you can do being "the best historian" and "history professor" at some university? pft! my cat would do better than that if he were to write his cat origin history.. smh!
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Even though I'm not interested in history in general, this book was entertaining and informative at the same time. The drawings definitely helped in terms of understanding of what happened. It was a great way to learn about evolution.