Title:
The creative spark : how imagination made humans exceptional
Author:
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
Physical Description:
viii, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781101983942
Abstract:
Overturns widely held misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself and asserts that creativity is what has made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth. --Publisher.
Contents:
Overture: Trumpeting creativity and a new synthesis -- Part one. Sticks and stones: the first creativity -- Creative primates -- The last hominin standing -- Part two. What's for dinner?: how humans got creative -- Let's make a knife -- Killing and eating, etc. -- The beauty of standing in line -- Food security accomplished -- Part three. War and sex: how humans shaped a world -- Creating war (and peace) -- Creative sex -- Part four. The great works: how humans made the universe -- Religious foundations -- Artistic flights -- Scientific architecture -- Coda: The beat of your creative life.
Language:
English
