Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Autor Gaia Vinceen Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 sep 2019
How
four
tools
enabled
humanity
to
control
its
destiny
What
enabled
us
to
go
from
simple
stone
tools
to
smartphones?
How
did
bands
of
hunter-gatherers
evolve
into
multinational
empires?
Readers
ofSapienswill
say
a
cognitive
revolution
--
a
dramatic
evolutionary
change
that
altered
our
brains,
turning
primitive
humans
into
modern
ones
--
caused
a
cultural
explosion.
InTranscendence,
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,Transcendenceshows
how
a
primate
took
dominion
over
nature
and
turned
itself
into
something
marvelous.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465094905
ISBN-10: 0465094902
Pagini: 320
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 0465094902
Pagini: 320
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
Notă biografică
Gaia
Vinceis
a
science
writer
and
broadcaster.
In
2015,
she
was
the
first
woman
to
win
the
Royal
Society
Insight
Investment
Science
Book
prize
solo
for
her
debut,Adventures
in
the
Anthropocene.
She
has
held
senior
editorial
posts
atNatureandNew
Scientist,
and
writes
forScience,
theGuardian,
and
others.
She
lives
in
London.
Descriere
What enabled humans to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? In Transcendence, Vince argues that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of their genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time.
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.