Transcendence : how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time / (Record no. 2553)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780141984209 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 599.938 |
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Vince, Gaia |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Transcendence : how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Gaia Vince |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London : |
| Name of publisher | Penguin Books, |
| Year of publication | 2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvii, 293 pages ; |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Humans are the most successful species on Earth; a planet-altering force of nature. Meanwhile, our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years. Yet we evolved through the same process. What are we then? And now we have remade the world, what are we becoming? Setting out to answer this question, Gaia Vince retells our evolution story. 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. It is our collective culture, rather than our individual intelligence, that makes humans unique. 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'. 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. To think of humans as a smarter sort of chimp with cool tools is to miss what is truly extraordinary about us. Look around you: we are the intelligent designers of all you see--including ourselves. |
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| Vigyanpuri Campus | Vigyanpuri Campus | 27/09/2021 | 599.938 VIN | 004491 | 27/09/2021 | Books |