About the authors: yuval Noah Harari, yuval Harari.

The author is so old, can have such a heavy accumulation, and can write this "A Brief History of Humanity" in less than 500 pages, which is really rare.

Translation: Junhong Lin

Original edition: a brief history of mankind, so Chinese is translated from animals to gods.

Junhong Lin, a native of Taiwan Province, has a solid foundation in Chinese and the whole article is fluent. It is both rich and interesting to read. Besides the author's contribution, translation is also indispensable.

I think the advantages of this book are as follows:

1. Rich in content but not boring. Reading this book is like meeting the author face to face. He talks like a story, and he feels kind and close. As a grand theme in history books, especially in the history of human development, it is really not easy.

2. Bold ideas and innovative ideas.

The author can imagine a mouse with ears on its back, which was produced by biomedicine in a cave in Staade, Germany 32,000 years ago, as a lion man.

In fact, there is nothing unique and unconventional in the book. The author's role is more like a rope, stringing together the research results of various disciplines and compiling a "story".

3. Ask questions and cause reflection. Have we become happy as homo sapiens through evolution? What is the future direction of mankind? State, government, religion, political parties, socialism, etc. What is the purpose of the ideology we are used to being invented? What kind of people do we want to be? Will the forgotten come true? If we want to influence the direction of mankind, we must ask ourselves, where do we want to go? As the author finally appeals, the real question to ask is not "what do we want to be", but "what do we want to be".

It is wise to read history, but history is boring, and the history in the impression is boring. This book is obviously subverted.