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The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781101983942)
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xA bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth?
Creativity. It is the secret of what makes humans special, hiding in plain sight. Agust n Fuentes argues that your child's finger painting comes essentially from the same place as creativity in hunting and gathering millions of years ago, and throughout history in making war and peace, in intimate relationships, in shaping the planet, in our communities, and in all of art, religion, and even science. It requires imagination and collaboration. Every poet has her muse; every engineer, an architect; every politician, a constituency. The manner of the collaborations varies widely, but successful collaboration is inseparable from imagination, and it brought us everything from knives and hot meals to iPhones and interstellar spacecraft. Weaving fascinating stories of our ancient ancestors' creativity, Fuentes finds the patterns that match modern behavior in humans and animals. This key quality has propelled the evolutionary development of our bodies, minds, and cultures, both for good and for bad. It's not the drive to reproduce; nor competition for mates, or resources, or power; nor our propensity for caring for one another that have separated us out from all other creatures. As Fuentes concludes, to make something lasting and useful today you need to understand the nature of your collaboration with others, what imagination can and can't accomplish, and, finally, just how completely our creativity is responsible for the world we live in. Agust n Fuentes's resounding multimillion-year perspective will inspire readers--and spark all kinds of creativity.
Author: Agust? Fuentes
ISBN-10: 1101983949
ISBN-13: 9781101983942
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2017
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2017 pg. 18
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2017
Library Journal 02/15/2017 pg. 103
Shelf Awareness 04/14/2017
Creativity. It is the secret of what makes humans special, hiding in plain sight. Agust n Fuentes argues that your child's finger painting comes essentially from the same place as creativity in hunting and gathering millions of years ago, and throughout history in making war and peace, in intimate relationships, in shaping the planet, in our communities, and in all of art, religion, and even science. It requires imagination and collaboration. Every poet has her muse; every engineer, an architect; every politician, a constituency. The manner of the collaborations varies widely, but successful collaboration is inseparable from imagination, and it brought us everything from knives and hot meals to iPhones and interstellar spacecraft. Weaving fascinating stories of our ancient ancestors' creativity, Fuentes finds the patterns that match modern behavior in humans and animals. This key quality has propelled the evolutionary development of our bodies, minds, and cultures, both for good and for bad. It's not the drive to reproduce; nor competition for mates, or resources, or power; nor our propensity for caring for one another that have separated us out from all other creatures. As Fuentes concludes, to make something lasting and useful today you need to understand the nature of your collaboration with others, what imagination can and can't accomplish, and, finally, just how completely our creativity is responsible for the world we live in. Agust n Fuentes's resounding multimillion-year perspective will inspire readers--and spark all kinds of creativity.
Author: Agust? Fuentes
ISBN-10: 1101983949
ISBN-13: 9781101983942
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2017
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2017 pg. 18
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2017
Library Journal 02/15/2017 pg. 103
Shelf Awareness 04/14/2017
By Agust? Fuentes
xAgust? Fuentes, during more than two decades of research, has published more than one hundred academic articles and book chapters. He has chased monkeys, apes, and humans in the jungles and cities of Asia, the mountains of Morocco, and the streets of Gibraltar. He's explored the lives of our evolutionary ancestors and examined people's daily routines across the globe. He is a professor and the chair of the University of Notre Dame's Department of Anthropology and a National Geographic Explorer. His perspectives and research have been covered in The Atlantic, Scientific American, The Huffington Post, and on NPR. He lives in Indiana.
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