The million-seller is now available in an affordable and expanded paperback edition. 100,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens lived as an insignificant species in a remote corner of the African continent. Today, humans are the masters and terrors of the planet. How did this happen? In his stunning journey from apes to cyborgs, Yuval Noah Harari, with his internationally acclaimed bestseller "Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind," paints a grand panorama of our own history and poses the question of where we want to go from here. "Sapiens" is one of the greatest nonfiction successes of all time, having sold over 2 million copies in Germany alone, previously under the title "A Brief History of Humankind." This immense success is no coincidence: the book has fundamentally changed how we perceive our responsibility as humans towards our fellow creatures and the planet—and how we act. "Yuval Noah Harari writes precisely, intelligently—and above all, in a way that makes you not want to stop reading. This book makes brains grow." ZEIT WISSEN. The book was first published in 2013 under the title "A Brief History of Humankind" by DVA. This paperback edition has been updated and includes a new afterword, along with numerous illustrations.