Yuval Noah Harari’s 2011 book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, is a great place to start if you’ve no prior knowledge but is cleverly biased, wilfully misleading and should definitely be taken with several grains of salt. The book is set out chronologically across our history, from life among the trees, to the age of science and the exponential increase in humanity’s god-like powers. Separated into four sections: the cognitive revolution, the agricultural revolution, the unification of humankind and the scientific revolution.