For any historian, it is important to at least partially suspend his personal beliefs while explaining historical findings. Harari does a very good job at that. He presents multiple viewpoints and theories of a historical event without actually taking sides. He admits that even today we are...
Harari does an excellent job simplifying complicated concepts without losing key facts。 My only criticism is around his treatment of religion and spirituality; he is very dismissive and writes as though everyone who is reading the book agrees with him。 Promoting religious beliefs would not be ...
Most scholars agree that animistic beliefs were common among ancient foragers. For discussion on animism in hunter-gatherer society see: Hervey C. Peoples, Pavel Duda and Frank W. Marlowe, “Hunter-Gatherers and the Origins of Religion,” Human Nature 27:3 (2016), 261-82; Vicki Cummings, ...