Homo sapiens as we know today is practically the only species to ever live on the earth whose existence influenced the past, present and future of everything else to an unimaginable degree. They might also be the only species that can study and evaluate their history, write books about them and then review those books. Today they are not only capable of breaking the natural law of selection, but they can also devise biologically engineered beings, cyborgs or give rise to life from inorganic materials. But we were not born as dominant species. We're the result of millions of years of biological, cognitive evolution who rewrote the laws of the natural order. About 2.5 million years ago, the genus Homo evolved in Africa, with several other human species coexisting in shared habitats in the middle of the food chain. Slowly Homo sapiens gained control over their habitats, spread across every part and arguably are the reason for the extinction of all other Homo species and nearly 50 per cent of other creatures. Today the human is almost the god of this planet capable of creating new creatures or destroying all the life on the earth within hours. How did an animal of no significance manage to be the dictator of the planet? This bookSapiens : A Brief History of Humankind tries to answer that question and also questioning most prejudices we hold on human development.