TRANSCENDENCE

Humans are a planet-altering force. Gaia Vince argues that our unique ability - compared with other species - to determine the cours e of our own destiny rests on a special relationship between our genes, environment and culture going back into deep time. It is our collective culture, rather than our individual intelligence, that makes humans unique. Vince shows how four evolutionary drivers - Fire, Language, Beauty and Time - are further transforming our species into a transcendent superorganism: a hyper-cooperative mass o f humanit...[Read more]