Rufus Griskam: Yuval Harari's Sapiens has sold 23 million copies. He says the book is a distillation of our species' past, present and future. The author also wrote Homo dais and 21 Lessons for the 21st century. Now he's out with How Humans Took Over the World.Griskam: Unstoppable Us should be accessible to everyone no matter their age.
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and philosopher whose books — "Sapiens," "Homo Deus," "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," and most recently "Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World" — have sold more than 40 million copies. He joins Rufus for a wide-ranging conversation about storytelling, life in the Stone Age, the future of democracy, and the threat of AI.
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