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

Autor Gaia Vince
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 noi 2019
ATIMESBEST BOOK OF 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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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

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.

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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.