TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vince,Gaia
TI  - Transcendence: how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time 
SN  - 0465094902
AV  - GN281.4 .V56 V563 2020
U1  - 599.93/8 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Evolutionary psychology
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Social history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Genesis: Conception -- Birth -- Fire: Landscaping -- Brain building -- Cultural levers -- Word: Story -- Language -- Telling -- Beauty: Belonging -- Trinkets and treasures -- Builders -- Time: Timekeepers -- Reason -- Homni
N2  - What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution -- a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones -- caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, 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, Transcendence shows how a primate took dominion over nature and turned itself into something marvelous
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