Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time - Hardcover

Vince, Gaia

 
9780465094905: Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0465094902 ISBN 13: 9780465094905
Verlag: BASIC BOOKS, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gaia Vince is a science writer and broadcaster. In 2015, she was the first woman to win the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book prize solo for her debut, Adventures in the Anthropocene. She has held senior editorial posts at Nature and New Scientist, and writes for Science, the Guardian, and others. She lives in London.

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Verlag
BASIC BOOKS
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465094902
ISBN 13 
9780465094905
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352
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