Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up - Paperback

by Tom Phillips (Author)

*NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*

A Toronto Star Bestselling Book of the Year

"Witty and entertaining."--Sarah Knight

"Laugh-out-loud."--Steve Brusatte

AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORY

Modern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years they've walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade--on the evolutionary food chain, we're true winners. But it hasn't always been smooth sailing, and sometimes--just occasionally--we've managed to truly f*ck things up.

Weaving together history, science, politics and pop culture, Humans offers a panoramic exploration of humankind in all its glory, including the rollicking stories of:

• Lucy, our first ancestor, who fell out of a tree and died
• General Zhou Shou of China, who stored gunpowder in his palace before a lantern festival
• The Austrian army attacking itself one drunken night