Professor Yuval Noah Harari: The Rise Of Humans

The two conditions that allow humans to control the planet is the ability to cooperate in large numbers, unlike animals, and living a fictional reality.
Professor Yuval Noah Harari thinks that the ability to create and believe fictional stories for a common belief, allows humans to collaborate the way they do.
I think that the rise of humans was caused by the need for a better life and survival. I think that rationality makes humans so different from other species because we tend to make sense of situations rather than acting only off of instincts.