An entirely unnecessary book. Sapiens makes 95% of ideas discussed redundant, and, even worse, the book is made redundant to itself through pointless examples which are used to pad the page count.  The rest it spent  misrepresenting the articles it cites or using them to reach batshit conclusions - at least those concerning life sciences, the spokesperson of which Yuval declared himself for some reason. I cannot judge his historical expertise, but, considering a passage in Chapter 11, where he implies that scientific journals pay the authors instead of the other way around (current Article Processing Charge in Nature, for example, is €9.500), I have my doubts.