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Author Vince, Gaia, author.

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

Publisher New York : Basic Books, 2020.

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Auburn PL Nonfiction Stacks  GN 281 .V56 2020    AVAILABLE  
 Bailey Science & Math  599.9 VINCE    AVAILABLE  
 Curtis ML Adult Non Fiction  599.93 Vince 2020    AVAILABLE  
 LewPL Nonfiction  599 V767t    AVAILABLE  
 Orono PL Nonfiction  599.938 VIN    AVAILABLE  
 Walker ML Adult Nonfiction  599.93 Vince    AVAILABLE  
Edition 599.93/8 23
First edition.
Physical Description viii, 335 pages ; 25 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Genesis. Conception -- Birth Fire. Landscaping -- Brain building -- Cultural levers Word. Story -- Language -- Telling Beauty. Belonging -- Trinkets and treasurers -- Builders Time. Timekeepers -- Reason -- 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 Social history.
Evolutionary psychology.
Human evolution.