![]() 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. 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. It is our collective culture, rather than our individual intelligence, that makes humans unique. 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. Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince ( 238 ) 17.99 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. ![]() '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 ![]()
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