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Transcendence
This episode reveals how human culture acts as a unique, rapidly evolving operating system, enabling our species to collectively learn, cooperate, and reshape the world in ways no other life form can.
“This episode reveals how human culture acts as a unique, rapidly evolving operating system, enabling our species to collectively learn, cooperate, and reshape the world in ways no other life form can.”
— Gaia Vince, Transcendence
Cultural evolution, human uniqueness, collective intelligence
If you've ever felt a quiet awe at human ingenuity, or puzzled over our unique capacity for both creation and destruction, this will sharpen your understanding of our collective journey, and this will help you see what to do next.
Gaia Vince, an award-winning science journalist, synthesizes anthropology, biology, and history to reveal the often-overlooked cultural engine driving human evolution and our planet-altering impact.