Lucy’s Reviews > Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind > Status Update

“Like evolution, history disregards the happiness of individual organisms. And individual humans, for their part, are usually far too ignorant and weak to influence the course of history to their own advantage.”

“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted.”

Fascinating. My favourite facts so far are; the homo floresiensis that were only 1 metre in height and that pregnancy used to last longer than 9 months 😲

“Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. That’s why Sapiens rule the world, whereas ants eat our leftovers and chimps are locked up in zoos and research laboratories.” 🙌🏻