What Harari’s Sapiens Gets Wrong
Why Harari’s most memorable ideas mislead
When I first read Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), I could not put it down. I finished it in two days. The book is fast, confident, and full of striking claims that seem to tie together human evolution, culture, and history into a single coherent story.
That readability is its greatest strengt…
