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Yuval Noah Harari on History

born 1976 Israel

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According to the basic evolutionary criteria of survival and reproduction, wheat has become one of the most successful plants in the history of the earth.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Throughout history, males have been willing to risk and even sacrifice their lives, just so that people will say, 'He is a real man!

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.

Introduction to Animal Liberation (2015)

It may well be that when Sapines encountered Neanderthals, the result was the first and most significant ethnic-cleansing campaign in history.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Throughout most of history, mathematics was an esoteric field that even educated people rarely studied seriously.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

You cannot run history in a laboratory and see... the social consequences of invent[ion].

Next Phase of Intelligence (2026)

According to... evolutionary criteria of survival and reproduction, wheat has become one of the most successful plants in the history of the earth.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

The most important military invention in the history of China was gunpowder... invented accidentally, by Daoist alchemists searching for the elixir of life.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

The European imperial expeditions transformed... history... from... isolated peoples and cultures... [to] the history of a single integrated human society.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

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