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Sapiens is so heavily overfitted that I almost couldn’t finish it the first time I read it through. You could say the same about Dawn of Everything , except that Dawn ‘s purpose was to show that there were not just counterexamples for many generally accepted things, but in some cases new evidence that totally overturns some of that “common knowledge.”

One of my favorite books. Though I have to read it with 10 Wikipedia tabs opened.

I don’t like this headline. A human from 60,000 years ago would be anatomically identical to a modern human, brain included, so of course they mind would be able to produce sophisticated ideas. A better headline would have been about there are few examples of abstract mathematics from that long ago.

• A recent report from the London Stock Exchange Group Plc found that “green economy” companies have a total stock market value of $10 trillion.

So about the same size as the AI industry, but actually produces something of value.