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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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign, to the American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking \u003ci\u003eitself\u003c\/i\u003e one drunken night, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSo, next time you think you've really f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFURTHER PRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eHUMANS\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Very funny' \u003c\/b\u003eMark Watson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong... 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