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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Books of Titans Podcast

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I've Never Really Knowing Is This Really What Harari Thinks?

This is the basic lesson of evolutionary psychology. A need shaped in the wild continues to be felt subjectively, even if it is no longer really necessary for survival and reproduction. And so that was one thing that I just did not like. The second thing is best captured towards actually towards the end of the book, but it's mostly talked about in the beginning. But this sentence in towards the back of the book really captures it. This page 28 and it's just a few sentences here. Yet none of these things exists outside of the stories that people invent and tell one another. There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws and no

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