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  title info:
    title: Transcendence
    sub title: how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time
  name:
    name part: Vince, Gaia
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 335 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 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.
  table of 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.
  note: Gaia Vince.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Human evolution
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary psychology
  subject:
    topic: Social evolution
  subject:
    topic: Social history
  subject:
    topic: Fire
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
    topic: Origin
  subject:
    topic: Nature (Aesthetics)
  subject:
    topic: Time perception
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Civilization
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
  classification: 599.93/8
  identifier: 9780465094905
  identifier: 0465094902
  identifier: 2019953092
  record info:
    record content source: PNX
    record creation date: 200109
    record change date: 20200729074303.0
    record identifier: in00004169780