Transcendence
How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Published on 21. January 2020
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-465-09490-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-09490-5 (9780465094905)
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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.