Yuval Noah Harari's 2011 survey of human history — arguing that Homo sapiens' dominance results from our unique ability to believe in collective fictions (money, nations, religions, corporations) — one of the most widely sold non-fiction books of the 21st century.
Provides the most popular synthesis of human history around a single explanatory idea — Harari's 'cognitive revolution' thesis (shared myths enable large-scale human cooperation) is provocative and debatable but accessible; the book triggered a global conversation about human uniqueness.
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