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  • Transcendence

  • How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
  • By: Gaia Vince
  • Narrated by: Gaia Vince
  • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Transcendence

By: Gaia Vince
Narrated by: Gaia Vince
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Humans now live longer and better than ever before, and we are the most populous big animal on earth. Meanwhile, our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years. We are not like the other animals, yet we evolved through the same process. What are we, then? And now we have remade the world, what are we becoming?

Setting out to answer this question, Gaia Vince tells a remarkable evolution story about us. Unlike any other species on earth, we determine the course of our own destiny, a fact that Vince argues rests on a special relationship between our genes, environment and culture. Exploring cutting-edge advances in population genetics, archaeology, palaeontology, psychology and more that fundamentally change our understanding of how we developed as a species, Transcendence compels us to reimagine our ancestors. To think of us as a sort of smarter chimp with cool tools is to miss what is truly extraordinary about us and the way we operate on this planet. Look around you: we are the intelligent designers of all you see - including ourselves.

©2019 Gaia Vince (P)2019 Penguin Audio
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"Vital is [Gaia Vince's] narration: enthusiastic and lucid." (The Times)

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