Humans: A Brief History of How We Fucked It All Up

An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic fuck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day.

In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're real winners. But, frankly, it's not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to really, truly, quite unbelievably fuck things up.

From Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign, to the American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking itself one drunken night, to the world's leading superpower electing a reality TV mogul as President... it's pretty safe to say that, as a species, we haven't exactly grown wiser with age.

So, next time you think you've really fucked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse...

The dawn of fuck-ups
Why your brain is an idiot
Nice environment you've got here
Life, uh, finds a way
Follow the leader
People power
War, huh, What is it good for?
Super happy fun colonialism party
A dummies' and/or current presidents' guide to diplomacy
The shite heat of technology
A brief history of not seeing things coming
Epilogue: Fucking up the future
Acknowledgements
Further reading
Picture credits
About the author