Transcendence
Autor Gaia Vinceen Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 ian 2020
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 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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465094905
ISBN-10: 0465094902
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 156 x 239 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
ISBN-10: 0465094902
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 156 x 239 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Notă biografică
Gaia Vince is 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 at Nature and New Scientist, and writes for Science, the Guardian, 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
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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.