Read these books! I believe every human must read these. Three books by three eminent scholars who own different areas of expertise yet share their passion for unearthing our past and showing what made us the way we are today.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
American geographer and biologist Jared Diamond dives deeper into the sea of human history, mesmerising his readers with the pearls of wisdom to answer basic questions of human inequalities we see in the modern world.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
This Yuval Noah Harari masterpiece divides the human history of the last 70,000 years into three revolutions: the cognitive, the agricultural and the scientific. He then proves how the marginal and territorial hunter-gatherer, homo sapiens, learned the lessons of cooperation and became the master of the planet, scripting unparallel progress in the last few hundred years.
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Known for his witty and lucid writing style, Steven Pinker, a well-known speaker, linguist and cognitive psychologist, wields his literary sword against the believers of “those good old days”. To choose his own words from the book: “Cultural memory pacifies the past, leaving us with pale souvenirs whose bloody origins have been bleached away”.
