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characteristics were shaped during this long pre-agricultural era.

Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Human Centered Design

dane cads and • 14 cards

In a lot of ways, human history is just a bigger version of this story. The same toolkit the Johnsons had access to in changing Lulu’s behavior has turned out to be a breathtaking evolutionary innovation.

Tim Urban • A Story of Stories

Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones.

Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens

Humans

Aishwarya Goel • 9 cards

SEVENTY THOUSAND YEARS AGO, HOMO sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the following millennia it transformed itself into the master of the entire planet and the terror of the ecosystem. Today it stands on the verge of becoming a god, poised to acquire not only eternal youth, but also the

Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens

The human blitzkrieg across America testifies to the incomparable ingenuity and the unsurpassed adaptability of Homo sapiens. No other animal had ever moved into such a huge variety of radically different habitats so quickly, everywhere using virtually the same genes.6

Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens

As human beings, we were shaped by necessity. In those early, precarious days, survival meant coming together—forming tight-knit tribes, relying on each other, and adapting to the demands of the natural world. We depended on the land for food and shelter, learned to cooperate, and created tools and strategies to hunt, gather, and endure.

Poetic Outlaws • The Comfortable Life Is Killing You

The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

Oded Galor

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