Weaving together history, science, politics and pop culture, this book offers a panoramic exploration of humankind in all its glory, or lack thereof. From Lucy, our first ancestor, who fell out of a tree and died, to General Zhou Shou of China, who stored gunpowder in his palace before a lantern festival, to the Austrian army attacking itself one drunken night, to the most spectacular fails of the present day, "Humans" reveals how even the most mundane mistakes can shift the course of civilization as we know it.
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