4/3/2024 0 Comments Professor yuval noah harariBut the fact is that one-on-one, humans are embarrassingly similar to chimpanzees. We want to believe that there is something special about the human body or human brain that makes each individual human vastly superior to a dog, or a pig, or a chimpanzee. We often look for the difference between us and other animals on the individual level. How did we reach from there to here? What was our secret of success, that turned us from insignificant apes minding their own business in a corner of Africa, into the rulers of the world? Today, however, humans control this planet. Their impact on the world was very small, less than that of jellyfish, woodpeckers or bumblebees. ![]() The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were unimportant. The reason is not what you might expect.ħ0,000 years ago humans were insignificant animals. History professor Yuval Noah Harari - author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind - explains why humans have dominated Earth.
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