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The Creative Spark : How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional by Agustín Fuentes is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Creative Spark : How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional about?
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 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 beh
Who reads The Creative Spark : How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Agustín Fuentes
- Publisher
- Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101983942
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Psychology, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.77 / 5 (77 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14