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

Name: Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
ISBN: 9780465094912

Gaia Vince

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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.

카테고리:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Anthropology

년:

2020

출판사:

Basic Books

언어:

english

페이지:

352

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