Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince

Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time

Gaia Vince

352 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species"A wondrous, visionary work"--Tim Flannery, scientist and...

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informative 100%
reflective 63%
inspiring 36%
challenging 27%
adventurous 9%
emotional 9%
hopeful 9%
sad 9%

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medium 30%

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