Copyright

SAPIENS. Copyright © 2015 by Yuval Noah Harari. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Translated by the author, with the help of John Purcell and Haim Watzman.

First published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 by Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir.

Previously published in a slightly different form in Great Britain in 2014 by Harvill Secker, a division of the Random House Group Ltd.

FIRST U.S. EDITION

ISBN: 978-0-06-231609-7

EPub Edition February 2015 ISBN 9780062316103

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