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Two Million Years in Two Hours: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

Your Undivided Attention

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What Makes Us Different?

The most important thing, if you look at homosaphiens, is our ability to cooperate reallya in unlimited numbers. Chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins, they can co operate may be in a few dozend individuals, but you can never find a thousand chimpanzees or ten thousand opins co operateon on anything. And that's because their co operation is built on intimate knowledge. One of the other. If you're a shimpanzine, i'm aShimpanzines and we want to hunt together on we want to fight together against some neighboring group, we need to have intimate knowledge. I mean, who are you? What's your personality?

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