A review by frankincredible
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

5.0

I can't praise this book enough. Just a fascinating explanation of sociology from the extinction of the Neanderthal to humankind as it is today. It discusses how our technology formed and changed the very definition of society from the invention of agriculture to the advent of money and credit. It even posed moral hypothetical quandaries such as the ethics behind genetic cloning of Neanderthals: would a Neanderthal retain basic human rights, even though they're not humans? (My initial reaction is "of course", but we don't extend protected human rights to other non-human animals, so who's to say for certain how society would treat that?") Can't recommend this book enough.