To me, it was best summarized as: >It would be fair to say that whenever his facts are broadly correct they are not new, and whenever he tries to strike out on

To me, it was best summarized as: >It would be fair to say that whenever his facts are broadly correct they are not new, and whenever he tries to strike out on his own he often gets things wrong, sometimes seriously. So we should not judge Sapiens as a serious contribution to knowledge but as 'infotainment', a publishing event to titillate its readers by a wild intellectual ride across the landscape of history, dotted with sensational displays of speculation, and ending with blood-curdling predictions about human destiny. By these criteria it is a most successful book. -C. R. Hallpike