Years ago Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

“but we have incontrovertible evidence of domesticated dogs from about 15,000 years ago. They may have joined the human pack thousands of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Fishing villages might have appeared on the coasts of Indonesian islands as early as 45,000 years ago. These may have been the…

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“politicians.’ It is much easier to live with the fantasy, because the fantasy gives meaning to the suffering. Priests discovered this principle…

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When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was…

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“The truth is that from about 2 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was home, at one and…

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“Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the acestor of all chimpanzees, the other is…

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“Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is…

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“Indeed, 5,000 years ago much of Sumer was owned by imaginary gods such as Enki and Inanna. If gods can possess land…

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“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it…

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About 15,000 years ago, humans colonised America, wiping out in the process about 75% of its large mammals. Numerous other species disappeared…

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“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities…

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“Was the late Neil Armstrong, whose footprint remains intact on the windless moon, happier than the nameless hunter-gatherer who 30,000 years ago…

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“economic pie of 2014 is far larger than the pie of 1500, but it is distributed so unevenly that many African peasants…

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“Most people don’t appreciate just how peaceful an era we live in. None of us was alive a thousand years ago, so…

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“Socialism, which was very up to date a hundred years ago, failed to keep up with the new technology. [...] If Marx…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Organs evolve to perform a particular function, but once they exist, they can be adapted for other usages as well. Mouths, for…

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“It’s a puzzle why we binge on the sweetest and greasiest food we can find, until we consider the eating habits of…

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“About 13.5 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang. The…

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“If happiness is determined by expectations, then two pillars of our society – mass media and the advertising industry – may unwittingly…

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“Whether Sapiens are to blame or not, no sooner had they arrived at a new location than the native population became extinct.…

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“Why do modern humans love sweets so much? Not because in the early twenty-first century we must gorge on ice cream and…

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“It’s a common fallacy to envision these species as arranged in a straight line of descent, with Ergaster begetting Erectus, Erectus begetting…

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“I still remember the day I first came across the Internet. It was back in 1993, when I was in high school.…

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“True, hundreds of millions may nevertheless go on believing in Islam, Christianity or Hinduism. But numbers alone don’t count for much in…

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“Some scholars compare human biochemistry to an air-conditioning system that keeps the temperature constant, come heatwave or snowstorm. Events might momentarily change…

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“The truth is that from about 2 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was home, at one and…

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“For example, the megafauna of New Zealand – which had weathered the alleged ‘climate change’ of c.45,000 years ago without a scratch…

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Homo sapiens, you and me, we are basically the same as people 10,000 years ago. The next revolution will change that.

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“Humans first evolved in East Africa about 2.5 million years ago from an earlier genus of apes called Australopithecus, which means ‘Southern Ape’.”

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“alongside seas and rivers rich in seafood and waterfowl, humans set up permanent fishing villages – the first permanent settlements in history,…

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“Seventy thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the…

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Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived…

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“Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, dwelt in constant fear of predators,…

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