Not a professional anthropologist or historian, but I do enjoy reading about it. You should be skeptical when authors/books make general claims about a large group of people. There are counterexamples, especially when writing about a long period of history, and books like these can often end up being Eurocentric.
Here are some good Reddit threads from r/AskHistorians and r/AskAnthropology, where professionals often visit, describing the flaws in Sapiens. The comments have specific examples, if you follow the links.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/igfkv5/is_sa...
> Beyond that, Harari seems generally unconcerned with differentiating the experience of Western Europe from the experience of "us"- the species. This is why I can't really recommend the book, because this so thoroughly undermines his apparent goal. The very name of the book tells us that it will be a history of all of us and how we became so dominant in the world. And yet, so much of the book focuses on things that only a portion of H. sapiens ever developed, but talks about them as if they were natural developments for our species as a whole.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/i7v3ab/wha...
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/71mayz/tho...
Here are some good Reddit threads from r/AskHistorians and r/AskAnthropology, where professionals often visit, describing the flaws in Sapiens. The comments have specific examples, if you follow the links.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/igfkv5/is_sa...
> Beyond that, Harari seems generally unconcerned with differentiating the experience of Western Europe from the experience of "us"- the species. This is why I can't really recommend the book, because this so thoroughly undermines his apparent goal. The very name of the book tells us that it will be a history of all of us and how we became so dominant in the world. And yet, so much of the book focuses on things that only a portion of H. sapiens ever developed, but talks about them as if they were natural developments for our species as a whole.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/i7v3ab/wha...
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/71mayz/tho...