What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of

it was the social measures that most influenced your chances of surviving,

Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. That’s why Sapiens rule the world, whereas ants eat our leftovers and chimps are locked up in zoos and research laboratories.

En vérité, Homo sapiens a surtout conquis cette planète grâce à la faculté humaine unique de créer et de propager des fictions. Nous sommes les seuls mammifères capables de coopérer avec de nombreux inconnus parce que nous seuls pouvons inventer des fictions, les diffuser autour de nous et convaincre des millions d’autres d’y croire. Tant que tout