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Issue: Sapiens: A Graphic History #1
Publication Date: January 2020
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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues
Title: The Birth of Humankind
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Publisher: FlagHarperCollins
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Indicia Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Volume: 1
Pages: 252
ISBN: 9780063051331
UPC/EAN: 978006305133152599
Price: $25.99 USD
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Content Items: 14 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Martin Zeller; Albin Michel
Disclose Notes: Also exists in a library edition, ISBN 978-0-06-305508-7.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
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Binding: paperback
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First Line: Volume One of the epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenomenon
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Timeline of History

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Rebels of the Savannah

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Yuval Noah Harari (the host, a historian); Zoe (his niece); Professor Saraswati (a biologist); Prehistoric Bill (a caveman); Cindy (Bill's mate)
First Line: About 14 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang.
Synopsis: Yuval contemplates the history of humankind and shares that history with his niece Zoe, with the help of his friend, the biologist Professor Saraswati. A discussion of the various species of the genus Homo is followed by speculation on how the species Sapiens developed culture with the aid of their large brains, and how this in turn enabled them to dominate their ecological niches, to the detriment of most other mega-fauna, including other species of humans.
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Character(s): Yuval Noah Harari; Zoe; Professor Saraswati; Professor Robin Dunbar (a professor of communication); Doctor Fiction; Prehistoric Bill; Armand Peugeot; Graow (a Neanderthal man)
First Line: So, Zoe, are you enjoying this little trip to England?
Synopsis: Harari and Zoe talk to Professors Dunbar and Saraswati about the ability of sapiens to believe in shared fictions, such as intangible concepts like community, money, nation-states, religion, economics, limited liability corporations, etc. The ability to believe in these intangible concepts is likely, in the opinion of Harari and his associates, to have given sapiens the edge over other species of humans, allowing them to cooperate in larger groups that any other hominid.
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Sex, Lies and Cave Paintdrs

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Character(s): Yuval Noah Harari; Professor Saraswasti; Professor Aiko Yoshita (an anthropologist); Dr. Duarte (an anthropologist and geographer); Herr Doctor Father Klug (an archaeologist)
First Line: One Prehistoric Bill comic, that's 20 cents, please.
Synopsis: A discussion of the variety of family/tribal structures used by hominids and humankind throughout pre-history and history, and of how the hunter-gatherer lifestyles of our forefathers likely impacts our present-day psyches.
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Intercontinental Serial Killers

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Character(s): Yuval Noah Harari; Professor Saraswasti; Detective Lopez; Prehistoric Bill [Bill Sapiens]; Cindy Sapiens; Adamski (lawyer for the defense); Judge Gaia; the prosecutor; Zoe
First Line: New York. For months now Detective Lopez has been getting nowhere with the most important case of her career.
Synopsis: Detective Lopez charges the Sapiens with crimes against the eco-system, showing that there's a strong co-relation between the arrival of homo sapiens in various parts of the planet and the disappearance of a large majority of the area's megafauna within a few centuries.
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First Line: The greatest swindle of all time or how super-sapiens was cheated by the wheat-monster!
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Also by Yuval Noah Harari

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About the Species of the Genus Homo

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First Line: Many of the specific characteristics of the ancient Homo species are still being studied and debated.
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About the Author

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First Line: Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling historian and philosopher, is considered one of the world's most influential intellectuals today.
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First Line: Praise for Yuval Noah Harari's original Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Synopsis: Quotes from Bill Gates, the Washington Post, Barack Obama, Forbes, and Natalie Portman.
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