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Unstoppable Us: Rethinking the History of Humanity, with Yuval Noah Harari – Part One

Intelligence Squared

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The Story of the Evolutionary Superior to Human Beings

Sapiens is the evolutionary superior to human beings. We are more gullible than other animals and believe far more nonsense than any animal on earth, he says. He believes that fiction is the basis for for for cooperation because it gives us a false sense of power. Sapiens: This is not a time to downplay our power and our agency as we push so many species to extinction.

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