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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind   Yuval Noah Harari
Disappointing book about homo sapiens. Liked his use of the term sapiens to designate what we usually call humans, and humans to designate all homo genus species. But the book has an odd condescending tone, as if the its audience is in middle school, and Harari is giving them a moralistic lecture. For example, “The story of these fundamental features of our universe is called physics…The story of atoms, molecules and their interactions is called chemistry.” Unfortunately, none of the information was new to me. Not a good book, a waste of time. Really glad I didn’t purchase a copy.