How Creativity Drives Human Evolution

Book: The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
Augustín Fuentes
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Dutton (March 21, 2017)
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What makes us human? Is war an inevitable part of the human condition? These are some of the questions that anthropologist Augustín Fuentes explores in his new book, The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional. Harnessing the latest findings in evolution, biology, and archaeology he creates a new synthesis to show that the great drivers of human progress have been creativity and cooperation, and that many of the things we believe about ourselves, from religion to race, are wrong. [...] news.nationalgeographic.com