Sapiens. A brief history of mankind. Harari Yu.N.

A hundred thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was one of at least six types of people who lived on this planet - an unremarkable animal that played a role in the ecosystem not more than gorillas, fireflies or jellyfish. But about seventy thousand years ago, the mysterious change in the cognitive abilities of Homo sapiens turned it into the owner of the planet and the ecosystem nightmare. How did the rational person manage to conquer the world? What happened to other types of man? When and why did money, states and religion appear? How did the empires arise and crumble? Why did almost all societies put women below men? How did science and capitalism become the dominant creeds of the modern era? Did people become happier over time? What future awaits us?

Juval Harari shows how the course of history formed human society and reality around it. His book traces the connection between the events of the past and the problems of modernity and makes the reader reconsider all the established ideas about the world.