#005 Yuval Noah Harari - Is Humanity Finished?

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

4.8 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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This week I’m joined by Yuval Noah Harari, author of bestseller ‘Sapiens: A Brief History Of Humankind’. We discuss how homo sapiens came to dominate the world, how our society is built on fiction, the creation of a class of useless people, and the future for our species.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Under the Skin with Russell Brand.
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0:58.1	And now it's Under the Skin proper with Joville Nourari.
1:02.8	Now I genuinely love this author.
1:05.4	And I think it's probably safe to call him a philosopher.
1:08.3	He wrote that book Sapiens, or perhaps it's Sapiens.
1:12.2	I don't think he's a book about saps, maybe at home most.
1:15.3	I'm an homo sapiens.
1:17.2	He wrote Sapiens, which was a book about the history of our species
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