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

An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck-ups of human history   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.   From Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign, to the Am