Yuval Noah Harari: ¿Por qué los humanos gobiernan la Tierra?

70,000 years ago our ancestors were insignificant animals the most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were unimportant their impact on the world was not much greater than that of jellyfish of fireflies or woodpeckers today in contrast we control this planet and the question is how did we come from there to here how did we turn ourselves from insignificant Apes minding their own business in a corner of Africa into the rulers of planet Earth usually we look for the difference between us and all the other animals on the individual level we want to believe I want to believe that there is something special about me about my body about my brain that makes me so Superior to a dog or a pig or a chimpanzee but the truth is that on the individual level I'm embarrassingly similar to a chimpanze and if you take me and a chimpanze and put us together on some Lonely Island and we had to struggle for survival to see who survives better I would definitely place my bets on the chimpanzee not on myself and this is not something wrong with me personally I guess if they took almost any one of you and placed you alone with a chimpanzee on some Island the chimpanzee would do much better the real difference between humans and all other animals is not on the individual level it's on the collective level you hum control the planet because they are the only animals that can cooperate both flexibly and in very large numbers now there are other animals like the social insects the bees the ants that can cooperate in large numbers but they don't do so flexibly their cooperation is very rigid there is basically just one way in which a beehive can function and if there is a new opportunity or new danger the bees cannot reinvent their social system overnight they cannot for example execute the queen and establish a republic of bees or a Communist dictatorship of worker bees other animals like the social mamals the Wolves the elephants the Dolphins the chimpanzees they can...