How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Species

A Fun History of Marriage and Other Mistakes.

A witty, intelligent, and refreshingly honest exploration of how humanity invented marriage, broke it repeatedly, and still hasn’t figured out how to live together peacefully.
From prehistoric pair bonds to modern divorce courts, this book traces marriage as humanity’s longest-running social experiment — easy to enter, hard to survive, and nearly impossible to exit.
Blending anthropology, psychology, and laugh-out-loud commentary, it shows why love and longevity don’t mix easily and how we can finally learn the skills we were never taught: communication, empathy, and emotional literacy.