Transcendence How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780465094905 |
Publisher: | Basic Books |
Imprint: | Basic Books |
Pub date: | 21 Jan 2020 |
Edition: | First edition |
DEWEY: | 599.938 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | viii, 335 |
Weight: | 567g |
Height: | 241mm |
Width: | 162mm |
Spine width: | 29mm |