Hey there, it's Steve and Dubner, and I'd like to wish you happy holidays.

I really appreciate your listening to Freakonomics Radio all year long.

We have had a great time making it, and also building out the Freakonomics Radio network

with new shows.

One of them is people I mostly admire.

It's an amazing interview show hosted by my Freakonomics friend and co-author Steve

Levit.

So today we wanted to play for you one of Levit's very best interviews with Yuval Noah

Harari, the author and historian best known for writing sapiens, a brief history of humankind.

It is a book that has changed how millions of people think about history and themselves.

If you have read sapiens, the conversation you are about to hear will take you even deeper

inside it, and if you haven't, prepare yourself for a treat and perhaps to have your mind

blown.

Steve Levit has gotten really good at having mind blowing conversations with scientists,

philanthropists, healers, artists, trivia masters, you name it.

Again, his podcast is called People I Mostly Admire, and I hope you will follow or subscribe

to it on your favorite podcast app.

As always, thanks for listening.

My guest today is Yuval Noah Harari, author of the Blackbuster book sapiens, which tells

the entire history of our species in under 450 pages.

Sapiens took the word by storm, selling over 23 million copies in 65 languages.

This is your story as a human being.

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