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.
