An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck 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, weve come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, were real winners. But, frankly, its not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - weve managed to really, truly, quite unbelievably f*ck things up. From Chairman Maos Four Pests Campaign, to the American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking itself one drunken night, to the worlds leading superpower electing a reality TV mogul as President... its pretty safe to say that, as a species, we havent exactly grown wiser with age. So, next time you think youve really f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse... PRAISE FOR HUMANS: In dark times, its reassuring to learn that weve always been a bunch of clueless f*cking nitwits Stuart Heritage, author of Dont Be a Dick, Pete A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong... Both readable and entertaining Telegraph
ALOIS NEBEL 
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