MindMap Gallery Yuval Harari's A Brief History of Mankind Intellectual Framework
This mind map is my compilation and annotation of the knowledge framework of "A Brief History of Humanity: From Animals to God" by Israeli historian Yuval Harari. If you are interested, you can take a look.
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Knowledge Framework of "A Brief History of Humanity"
Part One The Cognitive Revolution
citation
Chapter 1 Human: An animal with nothing special about it
Secret family history
The cost of "thinking"
chef's race
brother's keeper
Chapter 2 The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
The legend of Peugeot cars
A fast path around the genome
history and biology
Chapter 3 A Day in the Life of Adam and Eve
primitive affluent society
talking ghost
Peace or war?
curtain of silence
Chapter 4 The devastating human flood
Convicted
The extinction of ground sloths
Noah's Ark
Part 2 The Agricultural Revolution
introduction
Chapter 5 The biggest scam in history
The pitfalls of luxury living
divine intervention
victims of revolution
Chapter 6 Building the Pyramid
The coming of the future
order constructed by imagination
true believer
prison wall
Chapter 7 Memory Overload
Signed off by Cushing
The miracle of bureaucracy
the language of numbers
Chapter 8 There is no justice in history
vicious circle
The American Concept of “Cleanness”
him and her
sex and gender
What are the benefits of being a man?
muscle theory
gangster theory
paternal gene theory
Part Three: The Integration and Unification of Humanity
citation
Chapter 9 The Direction of History
Using the altitude of a spy satellite...
global vision
Chapter 10 The Taste of Money
How to calculate this?
shells and cigarettes
How money works?
golden gospel
price of money
Chapter 11 The Vision of Empire
What exactly is an empire?
Evil empire?
This is for your own good
When "them" becomes "us"
good guys and bad guys in history
A new global empire
Chapter 12 The Laws of Religion
make the lamb silent
Benefits of Idol Worship
God is the only one
The battle between good and evil
laws of nature
Chapter Thirteen The Secret of Success
1. The fallacy of hindsight
2. Cleo, the Blind Goddess of History
Part 4 Scientific Revolution
citation
Chapter 14 Discovering one’s ignorance
I don’t know that I don’t know
scientific dogma
knowledge is power
Progressive Ideal
Gilgamesh Plan
benefactor of scientific research
Chapter 15 The marriage of science and empire
Why Europe?
mentality of conquest
blank space on map
like invaders from outer space
Rare spider, forgotten text
Chapter 16 Capitalist Dogma
The pie will get bigger
Columbus also needs sponsors
in the name of capital
worship of the free market
Capitalist Hell
Chapter 17 The Giant Ship of Industry
secrets in the kitchen
A vast ocean of energy
life on conveyor belt
The age of shopping
Chapter 18 An Eternal Revolution
modern modern
The breakdown of families and communities
imagined community
ever-changing
peace of our time
abdication of empire
nuclear peace
Chapter 19 Live happily ever after
How to calculate happiness?
happy chemical ingredients
meaning of life
Knowing yourself
Chapter 20 The end of Homo sapiens
mice and men
Bringing Neanderthals back
bionic life
another life
singularity
frankenstein prophecy
Postscript: The animal that became a god
Historical chronology (from this year)
13.5 billion years:
Matter and energy appear.
The beginning of physics.
Atoms and molecules appear.
The beginning of chemistry.
4.5 billion years:
Earth formed.
3.8 billion years:
Organisms form.
The beginning of biology
6 million years:
The last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees.
2.5 million years:
African genus Homo begins to evolve
The earliest stone tools appeared.
2 million years:
Humans spread from Africa to Eurasia.
Evolved into different races.
500,000 years:
Neanderthals evolved in Europe and the Middle East
300,000 years:
Start using fire daily.
200,000 years:
Homo sapiens evolved in East Africa
70,000 years:
Cognitive revolution.
A language emerges that can describe virtual stories.
The beginning of history.
Homo sapiens spread beyond Africa
45,000 years:
Homo sapiens arrived in Australia.
Australian megafauna are extinct.
30,000 years:
Neanderthals became extinct.
16,000 years:
Homo sapiens arrived in America.
American megafauna become extinct
13,000 years:
Homo floresiensis became extinct.
Homo sapiens becomes the only surviving human species
12,000 years:
agricultural revolution.
Domestication of plants and animals.
Permanent settlements appear.
5000 years:
The earliest kingdoms, writing and money appeared.
Polytheistic beliefs.
4250: The earliest empire appears: Sargon the Great’s Akkadian Empire
2500 years:
The earliest coins appeared: universal money.
The Persian Empire: a universal political order ("working for the welfare of all mankind").
Indian Buddhism: Universal truth ("liberating all human beings from suffering").
2000:
Han Empire of China.
Mediterranean Roman Empire.
Christianity
1400:
Islam.
500 years:
Scientific revolution.
Human beings admitted their ignorance and began to acquire unprecedented abilities.
Europeans began to conquer the Americas and the oceans.
The entire earth forms a single historical field.
The rise of capitalism.
200 years:
Industrial Revolution.
Families and communities were replaced by the state and the market, and animals and plants became extinct on a massive scale
Now:
Humanity has broken away from the territory of the earth.
Nuclear weapons threaten the survival of mankind.
Living things are increasingly shaped by intelligent design rather than random selection.
future
Intelligent design becomes a basic principle of life?
Homo sapiens replaced by superhumans?
Book review
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The book was listed on the New York Times bestseller list and won the 2014 Wenjin Book Award from the National Library of China in 2015.
In 2018, the British Guardian listed this book as one of the "top ten 'brainy books' in 10 years."
The Royal Society of Biologists shortlisted the book in its 2015 Book Prize.
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Canadian anthropologist Christopher Robert Hallpike believes the book does not make any "significant contribution to knowledge." Hallpike believes that "...the facts he listed are generally correct, but they are not new ideas; and when he puts forward new ideas and new assumptions, he often makes mistakes, some of which are very serious." He believes that this The book can only be regarded as an infotainment publication, providing readers with "a wild intellectual journey across the entire history, mixed with shocking speculation, and ending with a chilling prediction of the fate of mankind." Hallpike believes that , language is obviously the basis of human culture. But Harari believed that not only language but also what he called "fiction" were crucial to humanity's rise. To say that culture is fiction is simply a perverse way of stating the obvious: culture is a set of shared ideas, and ideas themselves cannot be material objects. Language is revolutionary because it allows humans to be connected through shared ideas, into characters and institutions. Harari confuses the material with the real, the immaterial with the imaginary. The opposite of fiction is not matter but reality. Both fiction and reality can only exist in the non-material world of thought.
American evolutionary anthropologist Avi Tuschman believes in the Washington Post that the author's "contradiction between his free-thinking scientific thinking and his vague worldview bound by political correctness has led to many problems in this book", but also believes that the book " An important read for serious thinking and self-reflective Homo sapiens."
Galen Strawson, a British analytical philosopher, commented on this book in The Guardian: “Many of the contents are very interesting and well-written. However, as you continue reading, you will find that the attractive contents of this book are gradually replaced by carelessness, over-exaggeration, and sensationalism. Overwhelmed by content."
John Sexton, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, published an article in the magazine "New Atlantis", arguing that the book "fundamentally lacks scientific rigor and does not deserve the widespread praise and attention that the book has received."