![]() ![]() Transcendence chronicles human evolution by sharing stores reinforced by the latest scientific research. We read on nights and weekends and then hold a one-hour book club meeting. Drawing on leading-edge advances in population genetics, archaeology, palaeontology and neuroscience, Transcendence compels us to reimagine ourselves, showing us to be on the brink of something grander - and potentially more destructive. With an eye toward possible futures, our team is reading Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince. 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. It is our collective culture, rather than our individual intelligence, that makes humans unique. Gaia Vince argues that our unique ability - compared with other species - to determine the course of our own destiny rests on a special relationship between our genes, environment and culture going back into deep time. ![]() * A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *įrom the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful spe cies on EarthĪ wondrous, visionary work Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers ![]()
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