From what I’ve seen, Sapiens has been widely criticized by scholars for not providing any new material and being made up of speculation. Examples for this are listed on Wikipedia’s page for the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind#Scholarly_reception There’s also one example that explains how it gets the process of speciation wrong, which is something I have taken an undergraduate class on, and seems accurate to me: https://ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/04/sapiens-page-5-crummy-one.html
From what I’ve seen, Sapiens has been widely criticized by scholars for not providing any new material and being made up of speculation. Examples for this are listed on Wikipedia’s page for the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind#Scholarly_reception There’s also one example that explains how it gets the process of speciation wrong, which is something I have taken an undergraduate class on, and seems accurate to me: https://ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/04/sapiens-page-5-crummy-one.html