Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Autor Gaia Vinceen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 noi 2019
'A wondrous, visionary work' Tim Flannery, scientist and author of the bestsellingThe Weather Makers
From the prize-winning author ofAdventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth
Humans are the most successful species on Earth; a planet-altering force of nature. Meanwhile, 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? And now we have remade the world, what are we becoming?
Setting out to answer this question, Gaia Vince retells our evolution story. Unlike any other species on earth we determine the course of our own destiny, something that she argues 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 our four evolutionary drivers - Fire, Language, Beauty and Time - are further transforming our species into a superorganism: a hyper-cooperative mass of humanity that she calls Homo omnis, or 'Homni'. Drawing on cutting-edge advances in population genetics, archaeology, palaeontology and neuroscience,Transcendencecompels us to reimagine ourselves, showing us to be on the brink of something grander - and potentially more destructive.
To think of humans as a smarter sort of chimp with cool tools is to miss what is truly extraordinary about us. Look around you: we are the intelligent designers of all you see - including ourselves.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241281116
ISBN-10: 0241281113
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241281113
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Gaia
Vinceis
a
science
writer
and
broadcaster
interested
in
the
interplay
between
humans
and
the
planetary
environment.
She
has
held
senior
editorial
posts
atNatureandNew
Scientist,
and
her
writing
has
featured
in
newspapers
and
magazines
including
theGuardian,The
TimesandScientific
American.
She
also
writes
and
presents
science
programmes
for
radio
and
television.
Her
research
takes
her
across
the
world:
she
has
visited
more
than
60
countries,
lived
in
three
and
is
currently
based
in
London.
In
2015,
she
became
the
first
woman
to
win
the
Royal
Society
Science
Book
of
the
Year
Prize
solo
for
her
debut,Adventures
in
the
Anthropocene:
A
Journey
to
the
Heart
of
the
Planet
We
Made.
She
blogs
at
WanderingGaia.com
and
tweets
at
@WanderingGaia.
Recenzii
A
hugely
enjoyable
sprint
through
human
evolutionary
history
.
.
.
Read
it.
Beautifully written. . . At her best Vince takes dizzying leaps, making connections between archaeology, anthropology, genetics and psychology. She is especially good on the delicate interplay between genes, environment and culture. Vince steps with lightness.
The storming success of Yuval Noah Harari's books has inspired many others that aim to span the epic sweep of human history with grand theories and cor-blimey factoids.This book does both.
Here is the miraculous creature we are:unlikely, poignant, astonishing... Much to think about. This book gives rise to many such thoughts and is written with merciful clarity.
Wonderful ...enlightening.
Richly informed by the latest research,Gaia Vince's colourful survey fizzes like a zip-wireas it tours our species' story from the Big Bang to the coming age of hypercooperation.
Animaginative and inspiringadventure into the origins and evolution of what we hold most dear: our human culture.
This book goes from the Big Bang to the Hundred Thousand Genome Project to make a convincing case thatHomo sapienshas become a super-organism. I learned a lot from it and so will you.
Beautifully written. . . At her best Vince takes dizzying leaps, making connections between archaeology, anthropology, genetics and psychology. She is especially good on the delicate interplay between genes, environment and culture. Vince steps with lightness.
The storming success of Yuval Noah Harari's books has inspired many others that aim to span the epic sweep of human history with grand theories and cor-blimey factoids.This book does both.
Here is the miraculous creature we are:unlikely, poignant, astonishing... Much to think about. This book gives rise to many such thoughts and is written with merciful clarity.
Wonderful ...enlightening.
Richly informed by the latest research,Gaia Vince's colourful survey fizzes like a zip-wireas it tours our species' story from the Big Bang to the coming age of hypercooperation.
Animaginative and inspiringadventure into the origins and evolution of what we hold most dear: our human culture.
This book goes from the Big Bang to the Hundred Thousand Genome Project to make a convincing case thatHomo sapienshas become a super-organism. I learned a lot from it and so will you.