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Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? by digianarchist on Saturday December 28, 2019 @07:45PM (#21902979)
Didn't care for Sapiens. Very pop-science with the author's opinion littered throughout alongside wild predictions on AI, automation.

The only other book I read this year was Evicted by Matthew Desmond. It was an excellent account of poverty cycles as it relates to housing.

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Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? by jiscariot on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @10:06AM (#21921409)
I felt the same way. Romanticizing hunter/gatherer society and downplaying positive effects of agrarian society or any notion of evolutionary psychology. It started OK and about halfway through it seemed like he was just giving thoughts and theories on various things, without any references.

Though more focused on cultural evolution, I much preferred Joseph Henrich's "The Secret of Our Success".

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Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? by Breza on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:30AM (#21980829)
Evicted offers a great view into a topic that may be new to many HN readers
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