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

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 author of the bestselling The Weather Makers


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 evoluti...