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Transcendence gaia vince5/22/2023 ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Look around you- we are the intelligent designers of all you see - including ourselves. To think of humans as a smarter sort of chimp with cool tools is to miss what is truly extraordinary about us. 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. Vince shows how four evolutionary drivers - Fire, Language, Beauty and Time - are further transforming our species into a 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 to determine the course of our own destiny rests on a special relationship between our genes, environment and culture going back into deep time. ![]() ![]() Our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years. ![]()
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