Gaia Vince

Gaia Vince, the author of Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time, is a science writer and broadcaster. In 2015, she was the first woman to win the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book prize solo for her debut, Adventures in the Anthropocene. She has held senior editorial posts at Nature and New Scientist, and writes for Science, the Guardian, and others. She lives in London.