Yuval Noah Harari vs. Richard Dawkins
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Yuval Noah Harari
1976 – present
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual, and popular science writer. He is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His first bestselling book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) is based on his lectures to an undergraduate world history class.
"What will happen once we can ask Google, ‘Hi Google, based on everything you know about cars, and based on everything you know about me – what is the best car f…"
Richard Dawkins
1941 – present
Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995 he was named the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a position he held until 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin.
"... the genetic code is in fact literally identical in all animals, plants and bacteria ... All earthly living things are certainly descended from a single ance…"
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