The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention

by Simon Baron-Cohen

Book Overview

A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity
Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy thousand years, from the first tools to the digital revolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541647149
• ISBN13: 9781541647145
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.4"