by Yuval Noah Harari · 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429773187
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«Sàpiens. Una breu història de la humanitat» is the historical essay by Yuval Noah Harari, published by Edicions 62 in hardback (608 pages, in Catalan).
It begins a hundred thousand years ago, when Homo sapiens was just another species in Africa, and explains how a cognitive change made it master of the planet. It analyses the extinction of other human species, the origin of cities, gods, money and laws, and asks whether history has made us happier.
First volume of Yuval Noah Harari's «Homo» series, translated into Catalan by Marc Rubió; the original work was published in 2011.
For readers of historical popular science and non-fiction: according to The Guardian, an essay that revolutionised the market and popularised «books to think with».
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual, and popular science writer. He is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His first bestselling book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) is based on his lectures to an undergraduate world history class. His other works include the bestsellers Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016), 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018), and Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (2024). His published work examines themes of free will, consciousness, intelligence, happiness, suffering and the role of storytelling in human evolution.
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