Summary

In “Banana Adventures,” Harari writes that part of the Sapiens’ superpower is their ability to cooperate in large numbers. He uses the example of buying a banana. In modern times, people work together to pick bananas, ship bananas, and sell bananas so people everywhere can have bananas. A person can go to any grocery store to buy a banana. However, chimpanzees do not have this ability to cooperate. If a chimpanzee wants a banana, he has to go out and get it himself.

Harari explains that some of the biggest achievements of humans, like Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, were the result of groups of many people working together in cooperation.

In “Why Ants Have Queens but No Lawyers,” Harari says that there are some groups of social insects, like ants, who work together in cooperation. Those differ from humans...