Book Review: Origin Story by David Christian

"Origin Story: a big history of everything" has some overlap with Sapiens, which I reviewed here: both talk a great deal about human history, and seemed to agree on the major points. This book starts a lot further left on the timeline, Sapiens focuses a lot more on the sociology of religion and other common narratives … Continue reading Book Review: Origin Story by David Christian →

Book Review: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

The human race, homo sapiens, is an interesting thing: we're the only species to have developed a level of sentience and cognition that allows us to reason about the abstract and deal with the theoretical. Sapiens is a gallop through human history, with some interesting deep-dives into religion, economics, community, and oddly a little futurism. … Continue reading Book Review: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari →