"A Brief History of mankind-from animals to God"

"A Brief History of mankind-from animals to God"

"A Brief History of mankind", 400 pages from the origins of human origin, which speaks a lot of sharp views and put forward a lot of thought-provoking questions, it is worth looking at.

First of all, human development is a mystery, including two aspects, the first one: how people become human from animals, and the second: where humans go. The first of these two issues is the origin of the problem, to answer this question, there are three ways: 1 is archaeology, 2 is observation, 3 is the experiment. These three methods are difficult. But in terms of difficulty, experimentation is the hardest, because there is no way to make a monkey into a human being. Observation is not possible, because to now there is no other species that can be observed by scientists, that is, the race, only one, others are extinct. Archaeology is the easiest way to do it, in contrast to the other two types. Because it is known that the "Homo sapiens" species appeared 2.5 million years ago. He has lived on Earth for so long that there are always traces of activity. This book is to find these traces strung up, trying to find the origin of mankind, the author of the origin of the human science of some academic speculation has produced human society is now so developed, has become the god of the earth, but even how they appear to have no idea, this absurd feeling. Let a person look again, see Finally, the future of mankind has an unknown feeling, just found that God is not omnipotent, there are many can not decide, including their own development.

Here are some excerpts from the article:

In ancient society, intelligence is really useless (2.5 million years)

In fact, the book says there is no difference between the human brain and the former, or even degenerate (there is evidence that, since the acquisition of the age, the brain capacity of Homo sapiens is actually declining). At that time, people are smarter than the present, because to survive in that time, everyone must have a high mental capacity (now you have to rely on others to live). Humans have been in the middle of the food chain for most of mankind in the world. That is to say, the appearance of the brain, in the human so far the whole process of view, and did not play a decisive role. Moreover, in ancient times, there were fewer problems with hunger and malnutrition than in collectors. Most people live to be 60 years old and some even live to be 80 years old. That is, the primitive society is good, because they have a healthy and diverse diet, relatively short working hours, there are few infectious diseases.

Agricultural society, the biggest scam in history (1 million years)

From collecting society to agricultural society, some people say that agricultural revolution is the Great Leap forward of mankind. In fact, the agricultural revolution has made it more difficult and less satisfying for the peasants to live than the ancient society. Who should be responsible for this result, the book says is agriculture. Humans thought they had domesticated the values, but in fact the plants domesticated humans. The essence of the Agricultural revolution: let more people live in worse conditions.

The pressures of agriculture (the future) are far-reaching, and that is the foundation of a large political and social system for future generations. Sadly, though, the farmers are hardworking and willing to protect their future economic security, but this has almost never been achieved. Everywhere, there are rulers and elites, not only by the farmers ' hard-to-grow food, but also by almost all the robbed, leaving only the number of people who can barely live.

It was these collected excess grains that fed politics, war, art and philosophy, built palaces, forts, monuments and temples. Before the late modern period, more than 90% of the total population were peasants, the sunrise and toiled. The excess food they produce feeds a small elite: Kings, officials, warriors, priests, artists and thinkers, but history writes almost all of these people's stories. As a result, history tells us that very few people are doing something, while the rest of the vast majority of people's lives is to keep carrying water and plowing.

Most of the networks of human cooperation eventually became oppression and exploitation.

Global order

The world order, the first is the economic monetary order, the second is the political Empire order, the third is the religious global religion.

History is a chaotic system

The chaotic system consists of two levels, the first level is not changed because of the prediction, the level two will change because of the impact of the prediction

Summarize

There is too much information in the book to be felt by reading.

"A Brief History of mankind-from animals to God"