Throughout, she uses up-to-date scholarship, such as on how Neanderthal and Denisovan genetic material expresses itself in current human populations. The final two elements are connected more tenuously to their titles, with Beauty referring to “the importance of meaning in our activities,” and Time to the human drive to understand and explain nature. She begins with humans’ literal and figurative quest for fire and other forms of energy in order “to escape our biological limitations and exceed our physical capabilities.” Word, meanwhile, covers how language and storytelling contributed to humanity’s evolutionary success. Science writer Vince ( Adventures in the Anthropocene) looks at human evolution in terms of four elements-dubbed Fire, Word, Beauty, and Time-in this stimulating account.
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