Sapiens

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Sources:
• A Response to Yuval Harari (web.archive.org/web/20211203050910/https:/www.…)
• Yuval Noah Harari’s History of Everyone, Ever (newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/yuval-noah-h…)
• How Humankind Conquered the World (wsj.com/articles/book-review-sapiens-a-brief-h…)
• The revolution that wasn't (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004…)
• Advances In The Study Of The Origin Of Humanness (jstor.org/stable/24393638)
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a banal and risible self-help book (newstatesman.com/culture/2018/08/yuval-noah-ha…)
• Are Human Rights Western? (abebooks.com/9780195679489/Human-Rights-Wester…)
• Bonaparte in Egypt (napoleon.org/en/young-historians/napodoc/bonap…)
• Ship of Fools (hallpike.com/book/ship-of-fools)
• The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari (currentaffairs.org/news/2022/07/the-dangerous-…)
• A Reductionist History of Humankind (thenewatlantis.com/publications/a-reductionist…)
• Harari, Sapiens and historical accuracy (revolutioninfiction.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/h…)
• The Broad Spectrum Revolution at 40 (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027…)
• The Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/…)
• Was the Agricultural Revolution a Terrible Mistake? (rachellaudan.com/2016/01/was-the-agricultural-…)
• The Darker Side of the "Original Affluent Society" (kk.org/mt-files/reCCearch-mt/kaplan-darker.pdf)
• Harari's world history (findresearcher.sdu.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/19…)
• Compassion with Justice: Harari’s Assault on Human Rights (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjp.12367)
• Reconsidering the link between past material culture and cognition (researchgate.net/publication/378973881_Reconsi…)
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