Tom Phillips - Humans - A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

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“Thoroughly informative. Thoroughly entertaining. Thoroughly demoralizing. In a fun kind of way.”

“ Humans is a thoroughly entertaining account of unintended consequences, of arrogance and ignorance, of human follies and foibles from ancient times to the present. It seems history has taught us nothing—we are doomed to keep suffering the antics of both well-intended and ill-intended fools. As I was reading I wondered how I could be so disheartened and yet at the same time be laughing out loud.”

“Tom Phillips has proven beyond a doubt that humans are goddamn lucky to be here and are doing nearly nothing to remain relevant and viable as a species—except, that is, for writing witty, entertaining, and slightly distressing-but-ultimately-endearing books about the same. And if you care to avoid orbiting the earth in a space-garbage prison of your fellow humans’ design, you should probably read it.”

“ Humans is Tom Phillips’ timely, irreverent gallop through thousands of years of human stupidity. Every time you begin to find our foolishness bizarrely comforting, Phillips adds another kick in the ribs. Beneath all this book’s laughter is a serious question: Where does so much serial stupidity take us?”

“A laugh-along, worst-hits album for humanity. With the delicate touch of a scholar and the laugh-out-loud chops of a comedian, Tom Phillips shows how our species has been messing things up ever since we evolved from apes and came down from the trees some four million years ago.”

ISBN-13: 9781488051135

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

Copyright © 2018 by Tom Phillips

Originally published in Great Britain by Wildfire in 2018

This edition published by Hanover Square Press in 2019

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