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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
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ISBN10: 0465094902
ISBN13: 9780465094905
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Jan 21 2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780465094905
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Jan 21 2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species
A wondrous, visionary work. --Tim Flannery, scientist and author of the bestselling The Weather Makers
A wondrous, visionary work. --Tim Flannery, scientist and author of the bestselling The Weather Makers
What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution -- a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones -- caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time. She explains how, through four key elements -- fire, language, beauty, and time -- our species diverged from the evolutionary path of all other animals, unleashing a compounding process that launched us into the Space Age and beyond. Provocative and poetic, Transcendence shows how a primate took dominion over nature and turned itself into something marvelous.
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