Sapiens is better as an argument than as history

I enjoyed this a lot, but I'd be careful about treating it as the final word. Harari makes big confident claims, and specialists have pushed back on several of them. Read it the way you'd listen to a very clever friend at dinner.

The chapter on the agricultural revolution is the one that stayed with me. The idea that wheat domesticated us and not the other way round is the kind of thing you end up repeating to everyone for a month. My wife asked me to stop.