The Creative Spark - How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional - Agustn Fuentes
Category: Science
Tags: Science, Misc. Non-fiction
Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins Release date: 03-21-17, In the tradition of Jared Diamond s million-copy-selling classic Guns, Germs, and Steel, a 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. Agustin Fuentes argues that your childs 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 collabo
