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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time

Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time

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Hardcover – January 21, 2020

by Gaia Vince(Author)

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
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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    • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Basic Books (January 21, 2020)
    • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
    • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0465094902
    • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0465094905
    • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds
    • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.38 x 1.13 x 9.5 inches

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