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“... her husband is just a dull ‘specialist’. Today’s Ejlert Løvborg is the Israeli historian Yuval Harari. His Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind appeared in English in 2014, having been published in Hebrew three years earlier. Following ‘the march of civilisation’ from the Neolithic to the present in a punchy four hundred pages, it was an ...”

“... Today’s narratives flatter the aspiring coders and venture capitalists of Silicon Valley. For Yuval NoahHarari, the ‘march of civilisation’ has always been driven by the innovations of visionary technocratic elites.Not all accounts of prehistory have been quite so triumphant. According to Geroulanos, Rousseau ...”

“... grain.Some say that humans domesticated wheat; others that wheat domesticated humans. In Sapiens, Yuval NoahHarari argued that this wild grass succeeded in completely changing the human way of life, in ways that weren’t always beneficial for humans. With the adoption of wheat, the communal living and varied diet of ...”