Sapiens (Telugu)

Seventy thousand years ago, there were at least six different human species on Earth. They were insignificant animals, whose ecological impact was less than that of fireflies or jellyfish. Today, there is only one human species left: us. Homo sapiens. But we rule this planet. Sapiens, the book, takes us on a breath-taking ride through our entire human history, from its evolutionary roots to the age of capitalism and genetic engineering, to uncover why we are the way we are. Sapiens focuses on key processes that shaped humankind and the world around it, such as the advent of agriculture, the creation of money, the spread of religion and the rise of the nation state. Unlike other books of its kind, sapiens takes a multi-disciplinary approach that bridges the gaps between history, Biology, philosophy and economics in a way never done before. Furthermore, taking both the macro and the micro view, sapiens conveys not only what happened and why, but also how it felt for individuals. Sapiens invites us to not only connect past developments with present concerns, but Moreover to question our basic narratives of the world. The booklets conclusions are enlightening and at times provocative. For example: br>*We rule the world because we are the only animal that can believe in things that exist purely in our own imagination, such as gods, states, money and human rights. *Sapiens are ecological serial killers – even with stone-age tools, our ancestors wiped out half the planetary large terrestrial mammals well before the advent of agriculture. The agricultural revolution was history biggest fraud – wheat domesticated sapiens rather than the other way around. *Money is the most universal and pluralistic system of mutual trust ever devised. Money is the only thing everyone trusts. Empire is the most successful political system humans have invented, and our present era of anti-imperial sentiment is probably a short-lived aberration. Capitalism is a religion rather than just an econ