Homo sapiens? How We Messed Everything Up

Modern humans have been treading the earth for over 70,000 years and have learned a lot since then. They (we) mastered crafts and trade, developed culture and arts, and climbed higher than others in the food chain. But not everything... has come easily to us: sometimes we managed to mess things up in the most outrageous ways. In this book, history, science, politics, and popular culture are woven together, offering a panoramic view of the glory of humanity… and its ineptitude. Even the most seemingly insignificant miscalculations can completely change the world and the course of history, and this is quite obvious when recalling—like the author—Lucy, our first known ancestor, who fell from a tree and died, the Austrian army that drunkenly attacked itself, a homesick Brit who brought rabbits to Australia…