Transcendence : how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time /
By: Vince, Gaia [author.].
Publisher: London : Allen Lane, 2019Description: xvii, 293 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780241281116; 9780241281116:; 0241281113.Subject(s): Social history | Human beings -- History![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genesis. 1: Conception ; 2: Birth -- Fire. 3: Landscaping ; 4: Brain building ; 5: Cultural levers -- Word. 6: Story ; 7: Language ; 8: Telling -- Beauty. 9: Belonging ; 10: Trinkets and treasures ; 11: Builders -- Time. 12: Timekeepers ; 13: Reason ; 14: Homni.
Humans now live longer and better than ever before, and we are the most populous big animal on earth. Meanwhile, our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years. We are not like the other animals, yet we evolved through the same process. What are we then? And now we have remade the world, what are we becoming? Setting out to answer this question Gaia Vince tells a remarkable evolution story about us. Unlike any other species on earth we determine the course of our own destiny, a fact that Vince argues rests on a special relationship between our genes, environment and culture. Exploring cutting-edge advances in population genetics, archaeology, palaeontology, psychology and more that fundamentally change our understanding of how we developed as a species, this book compels us to reimagine our ancestors.