Transcendence : how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vince, Gaia (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Human evolution. Evolutionary psychology. Social evolution. Social history. Fire > History. Language and languages > Origin. Nature (Aesthetics) Time perception. HISTORY / Civilization. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.

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.