– The Times, Best Science and Medicine Books of the Year "The storming success of Yuval Noah Harari's books has inspired many others that aim to span the epic sweep of human history with grand theories and cor-blimey factoids. She is especially good on the delicate interplay between genes, environment and culture. "Beautifully written At her best Vince takes dizzying leaps, making connections between archaeology, anthropology, genetics and psychology. "A hugely enjoyable sprint through human evolutionary history Read it."
Look around you: we are the intelligent designers of all you see – including ourselves. 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. 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. 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.
Setting out to answer this question Gaia Vince tells a remarkable evolution story about us. What are we then? And now we have remade the world, what are we becoming? We are not like the other animals, yet we evolved through the same process. Meanwhile, our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years. Humans now live longer and better than ever before, and we are the most populous big animal on earth.
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