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SAPIENS: Yuval Noah Harari on Our Past, Present, and Future

The Next Big Idea

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The Human Superpower Is the Ability to Cooperate in Large Numbers

Many of the first farming communities were relatively free of ranks and hierarchies. Agriculture did not mean the inception of private property, nor did it mark an irreversible step towards inequality. My main point is that the human superpower is the ability to cooperate in large numbers.

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