The fourth entry in our series, “What I’m Reading This Summer” features John Hunter, Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities.

This summer, John is reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari.  John says that he is reading the book “to get a better background in the kind of assumptions that people make in evolutionary psychology” and also “because pre-history is being taken more and more seriously as a strong influence upon the events in recorded history too.”  He also adds that the book is  accessibly written and fascinating.