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Sapiens ( A brief history of Humankind ) Summary Part 2

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                                                              Multiple human species rooms the earth  together the depiction of man evolving  from a hunched over to upright  incorrectly displays have human  evolution as a linear trajectory, in fact,  the species lived simultaneously  humans have huge brains for their body  size human brains account for two to  three percent of the body size but use 25  percent of energy human con was very  much in the middle of the food chain  until 400,000 years ago and didn't leap  to the top of the food chain until  hundred thousand years ago most animals  at the top of the food chain made it  there gradually over millions of years  humans, however, jumped up to the top  relatively rapidly this means that the...

Sapiens ( A brief history of Humankind ) Summary Part 1

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Sapiens a  brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah  Harare a groundbreaking narrative of  humanity's creation and evolution that  explores the ways in which biology in  history have defined us and enhanced our  understanding of what it means to be  human  100 thousand years ago at least six  different species of humans inhabited  earth yet today there is only one Homo  sapiens what happened to the others and  what may happen to us most books about  the history of humanity persuade either  a historical or a biological approach  but dr. Yuval no hurry breaks the mold  with this highly original book that  begins about 70,000 years ago with the  appearance of modern cognition from  examining the role evolving humans have  played in the global ecosystem to  charting the rise of Empires.                 Sapiens integrates history and scien...

Godfather trilogy ( The best ever )

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                                                   T he Godfather is a couple of films part 1 and part 2 there's also a part 3 most people  think that part 3 made rather later  is a bit of a failure I think that too  I'm not going to say anything about part  3 they're based on a book written I think  in 1969 called The Godfather which was  a story about an imaginary mafia  family in New York and the first film is based  on that and the second film develops  both forward and backward in time  the story of the same family they are  not only immensely popular and enduring  films which people are happy to watch  over and over again but they are  rated as among the greatest films ever  made by serious film critics and usually ranked  between 1st and 4th in any ...