INTRODUCTION

BOOK REVIEW

SAPIENS
Citrasari Henra Putri
Leka Redha Putra
Muhammad Rizki Prasetyo Adi
Nafia Azhariya
Narita Risdianovi
 WHO RECOMMEND THIS BOOK?

"Interesting & provocative.... it gives you the sense of perspective

on how briefly we've been on this Earth"

Barrack Obama
TIMELINE OF
HISTORY

Although we’ve only been around for

a short amount of time,  No other
species has come close to dominating
the planet to the degree that we
have.
WE ARE ONE OF OUR KIND

37 -40 Species 1 Species

WHY OTHER HUMAN SPECIES

DIED OUT?

The Interbreeding Theory  The Replacement  Theory 

COGNITIVE REVOLUTION
70,000 YBP
The appearance of new way of thinking and communicating because of the
evolutionary of Homo sapien’s brainpower.

LEARNING COMMUNICATING

• Invented more complex • Work team together in

form of hunting tools and hunting of finding food
technique and resources
• Established primitive • Made community with
trade network small bands – roughly
• Made snowshoes and 150 members and spread
warm clothing of their out for colonized
skin and fur Europe, Asia, America,
and Australia

Legend, myths, gods, and religion appeared for the first time with Cognitive
Revolution.
THE CAPACITY
FOR COMPLEX
LANGUAGE

Social cooperation is the key for survival and reproduction

contrived for the new linguistic skill for communicate with others

The biggest benefit of language is that it helps create a common

understanding between members of a group, and this is what gives
humans their unique advantage.

Thanks to language and common myths, it was possible to

increase the size of our communities exponentially: From villages
to cities; from cities to nation states; and from nation states to the
global society of modern times.
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
THE INVENTION OF MONEY AND WRITING
THE EMERGENCES OF EMPIRES AND RELIGION
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
CAPITALISM, IS A LEGACY OF EUROPEAN IMPERALISM
HUMANKIND AND GLOBALIZATION
Globalization has a huge benefit

HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?

Because the hierarchical, structured societies that developed after the agricult
revolution pushed people to obey laws forbidding murder and violence, and th
created stable, functioning societies and economies. 
 ARE WE HAPPY NOW?

INDIVIDUAL SOCIAL
LEVEL LEVEL

NO With all the

improvements in our
quality of life, we must
be happier than
previous generations.
WHAT'S IN THE FUTURE?

BIONIC ANTI-AGING
TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY

SO, WHAT IS
STOPPING
US?
SUPER HUMAN
CONCLUSION

For 300,000 years Homo

sapiens have moved from being
just one of the many species of
human to becoming the most
dominant species to ever walk
the planet.

Beginning with the

development of language,
human civilization has been
getting more and more
sophisticated – leading to the
interconnected global village
we have today.
LESSON LEARNED THE END

THANK YOU
This book is important because it’s humbling us as
human.

FOR LISTENING!
This could be a wake up call for us in whatever we are
doing, be it business or day to day activities, to take
considerations of the future of the earth, other species,
and our own kind.
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Based on this book, we are the God of this earth and we
need to decide, “what do we want?”

THE END