![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on leading-edge advances in population genetics, archaeology, palaeontology and neuroscience, Transcendence compels us to reimagine ourselves, and shows us to be on the brink of something grander - and potentially more destructive. Vince shows how four evolutionary drivers - Fire, Language, Beauty and Time - are further transforming our species into a transcendent superorganism- a hyper-cooperative mass of humanity that she calls Homo omnis. She has held senior editorial posts at Nature and New Scientist, and her writing has featured in newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, The Times and Scientific American. ![]() It is our collective culture, rather than our individual intelligence, that makes humans unique. Gaia Vince is a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. Gaia Vince argues that our unique ability to determine the course of our own destiny rests on a special relationship between our genes, environment and culture going back into deep time. Our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years. A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019- the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth Gaia Vince (2019) Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty and Time, Penguin Press (Allen Lane) Gaia Vince (2017) The Biosphere. ![]()
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