We think we're the ocean when we're really just a wave?

Have you read Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" or deWaal's "Our Inner Ape"?

After reading "The Dawn of Everything" and Frankopan's "The Silk Roads" the most salient aspect to me of human nature and history is greed for money and power.

We could all just get along, help our neighbors now and then, and be content with our fair share of the pie. But some want more, and they ruin things for everyone else.