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It’s been recommended to death on HN, but Sapiens is a really interesting look at the development of humans. It uses a lot of philosophy to explain things.

• vog 9y ago
  Sorry in advance for this perhaps stupid question, but: Which Sapiens exactly do you mean? Is it an article, a book, a documentary movie, a presentation such as a TED talk? Which is the full title? I suppose you mean the book "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" (ISBN 978-0062316097), but I'm honestly not sure if I guessed correctly.
  • Luc 9y ago
    Use Occam's Razor?
    • vog 9y ago
      Use proper URIs? (Or in this case: an ISBN, which serves the same purpose. Unambiguous references are no longer an open issue. Open issue are: the lazyness to not use them, and persistent references (until either Bittorrent or IPFS is fully deployed).)
      • Luc 9y ago
        Yeah, I figured you had an axe to grind.
        • dang 9y ago
          Please don't be rude in comments here, even when someone else had an axe to grind.
          • Luc 9y ago
            Yeah, and moreover, I should have stuck to providing links to some good books, like so many others have kindly done. Next time!
  • gallerdude 9y ago
    Yeah, that’s it. OP asked for books, so I figured that would be enough. Sorry for the confusion.