Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time - Gaia Vince
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Anthropology
Evolution
Homo Sapiens
Intelligence
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In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools have enabled humans to control the destiny of our species.
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 marvellous.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 4/5
June 12th, 2021
Looks really cool. Thanks!
June 13th, 2021
“Transcendence shows how a primate took dominion over nature and turned itself into something marvellous.”
Sure, if you think strip mining the planet for MOAR & triggering runaway climate change that will result in yet another hot house mass extinction is marvellous. Hell ya! say sadistic misanthropes.
I think John Gray describes the humans more accurately.
“The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, ‘Western civilisation’ or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation.”
― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts On Humans And Other Animals
Collectively the humans are a Mega-Cancer. 8 billion & growing & they all want MOAR. Big lessons on finite resources & the nonlinearity of climate change coming up. Final lessons.
June 13th, 2021
Ohhh Apnea…Someone always knows better. I am just glad you guys are all here to enlighten all of us less sophisticated “cancers”.
Book looks intriguing. Thank you for the add!
June 13th, 2021
Hear, hear, LearyLegend886. I never thought I would find such erudite musings in a place like this.
June 18th, 2021
Well, in judging from title, we have a very complimentary assessment of our time on this rock.
Overly so.
June 19th, 2021
we are nature there is no separation from it mass extinction is natural and part of the evolutionary process thats why there were 4 previous mass extictions prior to humans everything else is just propaganda, you came here to suffer and learn deal with it
July 4th, 2021
cabronazo01, the current human caused mass extinction event makes for the 7th mass extinction (that we’re aware of. The new find is a hothouse mass extinction just like the other mass extinctions & the lesser extinction periods too.
The only difference is this time we’re the trigger/volcanism.
Whatever made you think I’m suffering because of it? Part of me is horrified, but a bigger part is fascinated & I’m honoured to bear witness to the endtimes. I’ll wager this self-extinction passion play has happened all over our galaxy & the universe.
‘Newly discovered mass extinction event triggered the dawn of the dinosaurs’
“Huge volcanic eruptions 233 million years ago pumped carbon dioxide, methane and water vapour into the atmosphere. This series of violent explosions, on what we now know as the west coast of Canada, led to massive global warming.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/122804416/newly-discovered-mass-extinction-event-triggered-the-dawn-of-the-dinosaurs
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