Humans

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 fck 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.

Through 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.