One hundred thousand years back was one of at least six types of man, living on this planet, - by nothing by a not notable animal that played an ecosystem a role not greater, than gorillas, fire-flies or jelly-fishes. But about seventy thousand years back the enigmatic change of когнитивных capabilities converted him into the owner of planet and nightmare of ecosystem. How did a man reasonable manage to overmaster the world? That did become with other types of man? When and why did money, states and religion appear? How did arise up and collapsed to the empire? Why did almost all societies put women below than men? How did science and capitalism become the dominating dogmas of modern era? Did people become in time happier? What future us does expect?Юваль Харари shows, as motion of history formed human society and reality round him. His book traces connection between by the events of the past and problems of contemporaneity and compels a reader to revise all withstand ideas about the surrounding world.