Drawing on the insights from paleontology, biology, economics, and anthropology, he looks into how the currents of history have shaped the plants and animals all around us, our human societies, and even our own personalities. In this, Yuval spans all of human history, from the very first humans that walked the earth to the very radical, as well as sometimes devastating, breakthroughs of the Scientific, Cognitive, and Agricultural Revolutions. How did our little species succeed in the fight for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors get together to create these cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in nations, gods, and human rights? How did we gain a trust in money, laws and books, as well as get enslaved by bureaucracy, consumerism, and timetables? What is our world going to be like in the millennia to come? One hundred years ago, there were at least six human species that inhabited the earth. вЂњSapiens: A Brief History of HumankindвЂќ is a non-fiction book that was released in the year 2014. He regards meditation as a way of researching. He also said he would have been unable to write the book without the insight, focus, and peace he gained from practicing Vipassana for fifteen years. Yuval dedicated his book Homo Deus to SN Goenka, his teacher that lovingly taught him some important things. Yuval is also an assistant meditation teacher. Each year he goes on a meditation retreat that lasts for at least thirty days in silence and without social media or books. He practices two hours of each day, for an hour at the start and at the end of his work day. He says that Vipassana meditation, which he started while in Oxford in the year 2000 transformed his life quite a bit. The couple was married in a civil ceremony in Toronto in Canada. Harari met his husband, Itzik Yahav, in the year 2002, and calls him his internet of everything. In the year 2011, he won a Moncado Award from the Society for Military History for outstanding articles. Harari has won the Polonsky Prize for Originality and Creativity twice, winning in the year 2009 and again in 2012. вЂњSapiensвЂќ won the Academic Book of the Year prize in the year 2019 as part of the UKвЂ™s Academic Book Trade Awards. in the year 2019 as the Wise Book of the Year. It was recognized by KrakowвЂ™s Jagiellonian University. вЂњHomo DeusвЂќ won the German Economic Book Award from HandelsblattвЂ™s for the most influential and thoughtful economic book of the year. He offers his time and knowledge out to various audiences and organizations on a voluntary basis. He has written for publications like Financial Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Nature magazine, and The Economist. He lectures all over the world about the topics explored in his articles and books. It was also recommended by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Barack Obama. The book was a top ten bestseller on New York Times best seller list and held down the one through three spots down on the Sunday TimesвЂ™ bestseller list for 96 weeks. Since the book came out, it has been translated into 45 more languages, and this book has sold over twelve million copies.

YuvalвЂ™s book вЂњSapiensвЂќ was published first in Hebrew in the year 2011 and then in the year 2014 in English. He is a vegan and he believes that this is a result of his own research, that includes his view on the foundation of the dairy industry is breaking the bonds between calf and mother cow. His research has focused on certain macro-historical questions like: What is the relation between both biology and history? Have people gotten happier as history played out? Does history actually have a direction? Yuval is interested in the ways that Homo sapiens reached their current condition and just what the future holds for them. He pursued postdoctoral studies in history as a Yad Hanadiv Fellow.

He got his PhD degree at Jesus College, Oxford, under Steven J. Yuval specialized first in military history and medieval history during his studies from the year 1993 until 1998 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He grew up in a secular Jewish family with both Eastern European and Lebanese roots in Haifa, Israel. Yuval Noah Harari was born Februand is a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is an Israeli professor.

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