Modern people have been trampling the earth for more than 70 thousand years and have learned a lot since then. They (we) mastered crafts and trade, developed culture and arts, and climbed higher than others on the food chain. But not everything came easy to us: sometimes we egregiously managed to screw everything up. This book weaves together history, science, politics and popular culture, that is, its pages offer a panoramic view of the glory of humanity... and its mediocrity. Even the most seemingly insignificant miscalculations can completely change the world and the course of history, and this is quite obvious when we remember - like the author - Lucy, our first known ancestor, who fell from a tree and died, the Austrian army, which drunkenly attacked itself myself, a homesick Briton who brought rabbits to Australia...