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Fiction based view      In his famous book "Sapiens"Yuval argues that main reason for humanity's progress is its ability to create stories. Religions, nationalisms, money based economies and joint stock corporations are all behind tbe success of humans. Humans cooperate and coexist in large numbers unlike animals which cannot live in large numbers. No doubt this is a new and creative way of interpreting reasons for human progress.Yuval says that every concept that facilitated humans to cooperate each other in big numbers are all based on fiction or stories.       Nations, money based economic models, corporate entities are really products of imaginations is agreeable to a large extent. Even in the case of religions, when it is a broadbased view, it is an acceptable point in my opinion. But to dismiss all religious doctrines as figment of someone's imagination is like stretching this  argument a little too far. But, yes,Yuval is spot on in macro analyzi...

Sapiens book - A Complete view of human journey by Yuval Noah Harari            "Sapiens - A brief history of humankind " is really THE BOOK to read these days. Authored by a Jewish Historian and University Professor Yuval Noah Harari, it certainly is one of the important books of our times about humanity's journey right from the days of stone age to the days of Internet and Artificial intelligence.   Agricultural revolution            Though the book contains all aspects of humanity's progress thus far, I am going to discuss here only some of the aspects which I consider new and novel in the book. The first interesting observation he makes is that of Agricultural revolution which happened about 10000 years ago. He says that agricultural revolution brought more misery and poverty and unhappiness and discontent among the lives of majority of humanity. He says that it is true that humans multiplied largely and star...