Most of the categories by which we define ourselves today are extremely new: nation states, race, sexual orientation and gender identity all emerged within the last 500 years. Join us today to discuss this book on The Other Shelf, our online book club! I had one central question: is there room in this human history for a human like me, a queer African woman? Only a few pages in, I already had to grin at the extreme narrowness of my chosen line of inquiry. Read my article explaining why I chose this book. When I chose to review Sapiens for my book club, – as Sapiens made me laugh out loud several times, which I hadn’t expected at all. Still, reading the book made me curious aboutĪs Harari didn’t explain laughter in the book, I did some digging of my own on the subject. It doesn’t need to – laughter serves no observable evolutionary purpose. Yuval Noah Harari’s hugely popular book Sapiens doesn’t say when human beings evolved the ability to laugh.
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