The Sapiens Secret of Success: How Humans Conquered the World
Yuval Harari
About 70,000 years ago, earth was populated by at least six different human species. None of them had much impact on the global ecology. Today only one human species has survived (Homo sapiens), but it is the most important factor in the global ecology. How did we reach from there to here? Our secret of success is that we are the only animal that can talk about things that exist purely in our own imagination, such as gods, nations, money, and human rights