When Yuval Noah Harari published his first book Sapiens in 2014 about the history of the human species,

it became a global bestseller, in turn the little-known Israeli history professor

into one of the most popular writers and thinkers on the planet.

Harari believes we may be on the brink of creating not just a new enhanced species of human,

but an entirely new kind of being,

one that's far more intelligent than we are.

The other book that I really enjoyed, a book by an Israeli author, Ubald Harari, called Sapiens.

And it's a sweeping history of the human race.

Welcome to Current Affairs.

My name is Nathan Robinson and I'm the editor in chief of

Current Affairs Magazine. My guest today is Darshya Nourinan. She is a neuroscientist and a journalist

and a contributor to the Fine Magazine,

current affairs, where she is the author of an article in our March, April 22, issue called

The Prophet, the Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari, Darsana.

Thank you so much for joining us on Current Affairs.

Hi, Nathan.

Good to be here.

What a perfect pronunciation of my name.

Thank you.

I'm very proud of myself.

Okay.

We need to set up for our listeners and for our readers why you have written a whole article about this one particular individual, Yuval Noah Harari.

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