Homo Sapiens Book: A Brief History of Our Human Species: From Bi-Pedal Primates to Space-Conquering Explorers

by University Press

University Press returns with another short and captivating book – a brief history of our human Homo sapiens.All the humans who ever lived are extinct – except for Homo sapiens. We are, in Latin, the “wise humans.” We are the sole survivors of a long and deadly battle against the forces of nature and time.The first humans – hominids – diverged from the other primates and began to walk upright on two legs some 3 million years ago. The first “modern” humans – Homo sapiens – diverged from the other hominids some 250,000 years ago. Since then, modern humans and our big brains migrated out of Africa, developed the capacity for language, domesticated animals, became farmers, learned to write, got religious, built cities, invented money, expanded empires, harnessed the scientific method, tried enlightenment, challenged authority, created machines, conquered the air, weaponized the atom, eliminated disease, walked on the moon, did the internet, made artificial intelligence, fed seven billion people, and speculated about the future of our species.This short book provides a captivating account of the noble, savage, sacred, mundane, heroic and heart-warming events that connect us with our earliest ancestors – an account that you can read in about an hour.

51 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 13, 2021

Reviews

[Jeff Lotspiech · Rating 1 out of 5]

The good news is this book is very short and cheap, so you won't get too upset about devoting time to it. I got turned off right at the first chapter. "Our species is thought to have evolved 10,000 years ago", "it is thought Homo sapiens first started controlling fire 800,000 years ago", "The Australopithecus that moved east evolved into Homo Erectus", "The Australopithecus that settled ... in Europe evolved into Home neanderthalis". Really? Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. It is hard to trust anything the author says after this start. Read Yuval Noah Harari if you want to know about this topic.

[Catha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed how the theme happiness was woven into all parts of the book.
There were so many new concepts that I frequently thought this must be the last thing I’ll learn but new ideas kept coming.

[Mehbub Javin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Splendid piece of art. বড়ই সুখপাঠ্য বই। পড়া শুরু করলে আর থামা যায় না। লেখকের বর্ণনার ধরন অতি সুন্দর। ইতিহাস যে এত সুন্দর করে বর্ণনা করা যায়, তা এই বই না পড়লে জানতাম না। তবে বই এর সৌন্দর্য উপলব্ধি করার জন্য ইংলিশে ভালো দখল থাকা প্রয়োজন।