Saturday, September 13, 2025

Sapiens: A Graphic History

Sapiens A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Volume One) by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermmeulen, and Daniel Casanave (2020) 245 pages

Harari's book, done in a graphic lit format, is very readable. Harari appears as a character in this book, along with his niece and a number of his colleagues. We learn about the various humanlike creatures that appeared in the world (and where and when), and their strengths and weaknesses, and how homo sapiens outlasted the others. Harari also addresses a number of animal species, and how they evolved and how so many eventually became extinct, many due to mankind's influence.

There are two more volumes in this graphic lit series. I haven't read Hariri's book in the non-graphic lit format, so I can't compare them to each other, but it's likely I'll continue following this very readable historical series.



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