Books like Sapiens
Loved Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari? Here are 5 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Sapiens →5 books
- 1Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared DiamondIt shares the ambitious scope of explaining how geography, environment, and biology drove the unequal development of human societies.
Books like it → - 2A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill BrysonIt provides a similarly accessible, grand overview of natural history and scientific discovery geared toward general readers.
Books like it → - 3The Silk Roads
The Silk Roads
Peter FrankopanIt presents a sweeping macro-history of human civilization by tracing the global trade networks and empires that connected East and West.
- 4Behave
Behave
Robert M. SapolskyIt explores the biological, neurological, and evolutionary mechanisms driving human social behaviors and group identity.
Books like it → - 5The Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind
Jonathan HaidtIt examines how shared moral fictions and evolved instincts bind human communities together while driving inter-group conflict.
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