Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
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A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019- the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth
Humans are a planet-altering force. Our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years. Yet we evolved through the same process. What are we then?
Gaia Vince argues that our unique ability to determine the course of our own destiny rests on a special relationship between our genes, environment and culture going back into deep time. It is our collective culture, rather than our individual intelligence, that makes humans unique. Vince shows how four evolutionary drivers - Fire, Language, Beauty and Time - are further transforming our species into a transcendent superorganism- a hyper-cooperative mass of humanity that she calls Homo omnis. Drawing on leading-edge advances in population genetics, archaeology, palaeontology and neuroscience, Transcendence compels us to reimagine ourselves, and shows us to be on the brink of something grander - and potentially more destructive.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 05/11/2020
ISBN: 9780141984209
Number of pages: 320
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