Title Transcendence : how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time / Gaia Vince.

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New York : Basic Books, 2020.

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Edition	First edition.
Description	viii, 335 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-325) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- 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.
Summary	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.
Subject	Human evolution.
	Evolutionary psychology.
	Social evolution.
	Social history.
	Fire -- History.
	Language and languages -- Origin.
	Nature (Aesthetics)
	Time perception.
	HISTORY / Civilization.
	SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology.
	SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
	Evolutionary psychology. (OCoLC)fst00917348
	Fire. (OCoLC)fst00925173
	Human evolution. (OCoLC)fst00963030
	Language and languages -- Origin. (OCoLC)fst00992183
	Nature (Aesthetics) (OCoLC)fst01034609
	Social evolution. (OCoLC)fst01122456
	Social history. (OCoLC)fst01122498
	Time perception. (OCoLC)fst01151148
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9780465094905 (hardcover)
	0465094902 (hardcover)

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