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Yuval Noah Harari’s Apocalyptic Vision
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. “About 14 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being.” So begins Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), by the Israeli historian Yuval …