Drawing on leading-edge advances in population genetics, archaeology, palaeontology and neuroscience, Transcendence compels us to reimagine ourselves, showing us to be on the brink of something grander - and potentially more destructive. Everett - Parlin Memorial, Adult Nonfiction, 599.938/Vince (Text to. This book shows how humans transcended their origins to become a world-conquering primate, writes Tom Whipple. Vince shows how four evolutionary drivers - Fire, Language, Beauty and Time - are further transforming our species into a transcendent superorganism: a hyper-cooperative mass of humanity that she calls Homo omnis. Transcendence : how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time / Gaia Vince. Transcendence by Gaia Vince review the epic sweep of human progress. It is our collective culture, rather than our individual intelligence, that makes humans unique. Gaia Vince (born 1973 or 1974) is a freelance British environmental journalist, broadcaster and non-fiction author with British and Australian citizenship. Gaia Vince argues that our unique ability - compared with other species - to determine the course of our own destiny rests on a special relationship between our genes, environment and culture going back into deep time. 'A wondrous, visionary work' Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers * A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *įrom the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful spe cies on Earth Transcendence by Gaia Vince Book review The TLS Culturally and cognitively, humans are unique we wield unprecedented control over our environment.
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