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Coursera: History began when humans invented gods, and will end when humans become gods...
Below is a blog entry written by The Hebrew University of Jersusalem’s Dr. Yuval Noah Harari about his course A Brief History of Humankind; started this week, August 10th. A human handprint made about 30,000 years ago, on the wall of the Chauvet Cave in southern France. Somebody tried to say “I was here!” A human footprint on the Moon, 1969. We were there too. Seventy thousand years ago, there were at least six different human species on earth. They were insignificant animals, whose ecological impact was no greater than that of jellyfish, zebras or chickens. Today, there is only one human species left: Us. Homo sapiens. But we rule this planet. The course, A Brief History of Humankind, takes us on a breath-taking ride through our entire human history, from its evolutionary roots to the age of…