Transcendence : how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time / Gaia Vince.
Transcendence : how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time / Gaia Vince.
Transcendence : how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time / Gaia Vince.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, 2020.
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G 2020/4120
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 335 pages ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, 2020.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2020.
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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...
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Transcendence : how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time / Gaia Vince.
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"January 2020"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-325) and index.
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G 2020/4120
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74VKavN2e0XM
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ISBN
0465094902
9780465094905
DDC
599.938
MMS ID
991024357414102626
