Drawing on cutting-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 our four evolutionary drivers – Fire, Language, Beauty and Time – are further transforming our species into a superorganism: a hyper-cooperative mass of humanity that she calls Homo omnis, or ‘Homni’. It is our collective culture, rather than our individual intelligence, that makes humans unique. In the first chapter alone, Vince, an award-winning science writer and broadcaster based in London, covers the Big Bang, evolution, photosynthesis, the extinction of the dinosaurs, climate. Unlike any other species on earth we determine the course of our own destiny, something that she argues rests on a special relationship between our genes, environment and culture going back into deep time. Sean Wilson in conversation with Gaia Vince discussing her book Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and TimeWhat enabled us to. Setting out to answer this question, Gaia Vince retells our evolution story. What are we then? And now we have remade the world, what are we becoming? 0 Ratings 1 Want to read 0 Currently reading 0 Have read Not in Library. Transcendence How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince. and Blackstone Publishing edition, audio cd. Meanwhile, our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years. Transcendence by Gaia Vince, Feb 15, 2020, Recorded Books, Inc. Gaia Vince discusses these ideas in her book TRANSCENDENCE: How humans evolved through fire, language, beauty and time. Humans are the most successful species on Earth a planet-altering force of nature.

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