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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time

作者 Gaia Vince
出版社 Ingram International Inc
商品描述 Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time:InthetraditionofGuns,Germs,andSteelandSapiens,awinneroftheRoyalSocietyPrizeforScienc

內容簡介

內容簡介 In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species"A wondrous, visionary work." --Tim Flannery, scientist and author of the bestselling The Weather MakersWhat 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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 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.

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書名 / Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
作者 / Gaia Vince
簡介 / Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time:InthetraditionofGuns,Germs,andSteelandSapiens,awinneroftheRoyalSocietyPrizeforScienc
出版社 / Ingram International Inc
ISBN13 / 9780465094905
ISBN10 /
EAN / 9780465094905
誠品26碼 /
重量(g) / 557.9
語言 / 3:英文
級別 / N:無
尺寸 / 23.6X16.0X3.6CM
裝訂 / H:精裝
頁數 / 352

最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : 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.

最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : 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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