# Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Type: #book - ASIN: B00K7ED54M - Authors: [[Yuval Noah Harari]] - Highlights - Since long intestines and large brains are both massive energy consumers, it’s hard to have both. By shortening the intestines and decreasing their energy consumption, cooking inadvertently opened the way to the jumbo brains of Neanderthals and Sapiens. (p9) - Notes -