Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • Magazines

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Natural sciences
  3. Physics and chemistry

Read and listen for free for 42 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
3.5(4)

Transcendence

How four tools enabled humanity to control its destiny 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 marvelous.

Audiobook

  • Published: 2020-01-21

  • Language: English

  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.

  • ISBN: 9781980047391


Author:

  • Gaia Vince

Narrator:

  • Gaia Vince

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 11 h 28 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Natural sciences
  • Physics and chemistry

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. Bacteria

    Sebastian Amyes

    audiobook
  2. American Intellectual History

    Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

    audiobook
  3. Country Capitalism : How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet

    Bart Elmore

    audiobook
  4. Topology

    Richard Earl

    audiobook
  5. Climate Change

    Mark Maslin

    audiobook
  6. Prison by Any Other Name

    Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law

    audiobook
  7. Capitalism and Slavery

    Eric Williams

    audiobook
  8. White House by the Sea : A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port

    Kate Storey

    audiobookbook
  9. Frederick Douglass - A Biography

    Charles W. Chesnutt

    audiobookbook
  10. Kaplan Word Power : Vocabulary Building for Success

    Kaplan Kaplan

    audiobook
  11. Music

    Nicholas Cook

    audiobook
  12. The Hidden History of Neoliberalism : How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness

    Thom Hartmann

    audiobook

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5