Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Sapiens covers an impressive timespan and shows how Homo sapiens became the dominant species through the Cognitive Revolution. This happened through the creation of more complex tools, and better communication leading to societal growth and new trading networks.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a book by Yuval Noah Harari, first published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 based on a series of lectures Harari taught at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in English in 2015