Humans: A Brief History of How We Fucked Up

A fascinating and entertaining guide to the most creative and catastrophic failures in human history. Humanity's trajectory hasn't been easy, and sometimes we've managed, in unbelievable ways, to create a lot of trouble. In Humans: A Brief History of How We Fucked Up, Tom Phillips takes the reader on a journey through the most bizarre events in world history since humans arrived on Earth. In a clever and humorous way, the author reveals how a Shakespeare fanatic managed to cause a catastrophe by underestimating the social organization of birds; who were the worst leaders of the democratic system and the greatest failures of science; the importance of remembering the existence of time zones when scheduling a fight; the most unlikely ways in which humanity managed to harm the environment; and what possibilities await us in the future.