The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional

by Agustín Fuentes

Book Overview

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. Agust n Fuentes argues that your child's finger painting comes essentially from the same place as creativity in hunting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101983949
• ISBN13: 9781101983942
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"