"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is an ambitious undertaking
by anyone's standards. One hundred and fifty thousand years is an
extremely long time - the very opposite of "brief," in fact. As
centuries gave way to millennia, the development of our species was
slowly and incrementally shaped by three major "revolutions": the
Cognitive Revolution, which saw the emergence of language and our
ability to believe in collective invented "realities" like the concept
of gods and, later, money; the Agricultural Revolution, which ushered in
large-scale domestication of animals leading to a switch from a
hunter-gatherer lifestyle to that of farmer; and, more recently, the
Scientific Revolution, during which humanity set about deciphering the
mysteries of the world." - BookBrowse.com
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