Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Listen to Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind audiobook by Yuval Noah Harari. This 'brief' history digs deeper into human evolution than I have ever gotten into. Download Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Audiobook. Animals much like modern humans first appeared about 2.5 million years ago.Īudiobooks >Science >Life Sciences >Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. There were humans long before there was history. This book tells the story of how these three revolutions have affected humans and their fellow organisms. The Scientific Revolution, which got under way only 500 years ago, may well end history and start something completely different. The Agricultural Revolution sped it up about 12,000 years ago.
Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The subsequent development of these human cultures is called history. About 70,000 years ago, organisms belonging to the species Homo sapiens started to form even more elaborate structures called cultures. The story of organisms is called biology. About 3.8 billion years ago, on a planet called Earth, certain molecules combined to form particularly large and intricate structures called organisms.
The story of atoms, molecules and their interactions is called chemistry. About 300,000 years after their appearance, matter and energy started to coalesce into complex structures, called atoms, which then combined into molecules. The story of these fundamental features of our universe is called physics. Book Preface An Animal of No Significance ABOUT 13.5 BILLION YEARS AGO, MATTER, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang.