Harari has succeeded because his ideas are gripping and thought-provoking. If Harari were selling ketchup or soda, this would be called “brand extension.” But he’s selling ideas, so let’s call it genius.Īnd not just marketing genius. There is the multivolume “Sapiens: A Graphic History,” and a coming “Sapiens Live,” billed as “an immersive experience inspired by the works of Yuval Noah Harari.” And there is the book before us, UNSTOPPABLE US: How Humans Took Over the World (Bright Matter Books, 208 pp., $24.99, ages 10 to 14), the first of four planned volumes.

Since that first blazing success, Harari has expanded the project through Sapienship, the multidisciplinary organization he founded with his husband, Itzik Yahav, in 2019. That book garnered praise from Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Barack Obama (who called it “interesting and provocative”). In “Sapiens,” he guided readers through a sweeping tour of revolutions in human development, including the development of cognition, of agriculture and of science.

Harari, the author of the 2015 best seller “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” is not timid. Yuval Noah Harari has taken on the challenge. How in the world could you explain all that to kids? The story of humans, who rose from a position in nature as fairly unexceptional primates to becoming the world’s dominant species - and a threat to planetary survival - is vast and complicated and uncomfortable. But anyone with a little knowledge of human origins knows the deeper answer for every human on the planet: Africa. Illustrated by Ricard Zaplana Ruiz.įor most of us, the answer is automatic, and personal. UNSTOPPABLE US: How Humans Took Over the World, by Yuval Noah Harari.

人類大命運：從智人到神人 by Yuval Noah Harari