I don't have a bunch of time but for a book on history my first stop is usually askhistorians, and they absolutely deliver on Sapiens that is a master thread with plenty of examples. there's a dead link to a essay on the topic but you can find it here

In all its a big book that doesn't really rely on evidence, he tends to start at a point and then draw his own conclusion.

It also has a issue in that a lot of it is based on the idea of a cognitive revolution ie behavioural modernity. this isn't something that happened all at once like he claims and is mostly abandoned in modern science