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008			200109s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng d
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050		4	_aGN281.4 .V56 _bV563 2020
082	0	4	_a599.93/8 _223
100	1		_aVince, Gaia,
245	1	0	_aTranscendence : _bhow humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time / _cGaia Vince.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBasic Books, _c2020.
300			_aviii, 335 pages ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aGenesis: Conception -- Birth -- Fire: Landscaping -- Brain building -- Cultural levers -- Word: Story -- Language -- Telling -- Beauty: Belonging -- Trinkets and treasures -- Builders -- Time: Timekeepers -- Reason -- Homni.
520			_aWhat 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.
650		0	_aEvolutionary psychology.
650		0	_aHuman evolution.
650		0	_aSocial history.
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