![]() ![]() ![]() His co-authors on the new book, the French illustrator Daniel Casanave and Belgian scriptwriter David Vandermeulen, insisted Harari step into the frame. Scientists often speak in jargon, statistics, graphs, which most people find difficult – people usually think in stories On the opening page he greets us from an armchair, book open on his lap, ready for story-time later he leads a fictional niece through the complexities of evolution and his theories on how an obscure savannah-dwelling ape rose to world domination. So it’s curious to see the 44-year-old appearing in Sapiens: A Graphic History, serving as an avuncular cartoon tour guide through the early days of humanity. “If Harari weren’t always out in public,” a New Yorker profile noted earlier this year, “one might mistake him for a recluse.” ![]() ![]() Slim, bespectacled and shaven-headed, he speaks softly but insistently not just about our distant past but also of the near future of humanity and the various existential threats looming. But for all his ambition and influence, Harari cuts a rather sober figure. ![]()
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