~Read !Book Humans: A Brief History of How We F*

<b><i>Sapiens </i>meets <i>The Darwin Awards </i>in<i> Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up</i>, which shows how human civilization was built upon thousands of years of trial and error - but mostly error - by former Buzzfeed UK editorial director Tom Phillips.</b><br /><br />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 f*ck things up.<br /><br />From Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign, to the sinking of the Titanic; from the American Dustbowl, 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.