The Origins of Creativity
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (767 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1631493183 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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The author of more than thirty books, including The Social Conquest of Earth, The Meaning of Human Existence, and Letters to a Young Scientist, Wilson is a professor emeritus at Harvard University. Edward O. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he lives with his wife, Irene Wilson, in Lexington, Massachusetts. Wilson i
“As always, Wilson tosses off astonishing insights with charming ease (he’s a master of the lyrically short sentence). Always forging ahead, he considers our most abstract behaviors: the apprehension of beauty and our yearning to recreate it. It will make you think long and hard and fruitfully!” - Bill McKibben, author Radio Free Vermont“Within The Origins of Creativity, E.O. These profoundly humane meditations on nature, creativity, and our primal yearnings will delight his longtime fans and provide newcomers with the perfect intro
Both endeavours, Edward O. And in doing so, Wilson explores what we can learn about human nature from a surprising range of creative endeavorsthe instinct to create gardens, the use of metaphors and irony in speech, and the power of music and song.Our achievements in science and the humanities, Wilson notes, make us uniquely advanced as a species, but also give us the potential to be supremely dangerous, most worryingly in our abuse of the planet. Wilson reveals, have their roots in human creativitythe defining trait of our species.Reflecting on the deepest origins of language, storytelling, and art, Wilson demonstrates how creativity began not ten thousand years ago, as we have long assumed, but over one hundred thousand years ago in the Paleolithic age. Chronicling this evolution of creativity from primate ancestors to humans, The Origins of Creativity shows how the humanities, spurred on by the invention of language, have played a largely unexamined role in defining our species. An eloquent exploration of creativity, The Origins of Creativity grapples with the question of how this uniquely human expressionso central to our identity as individuals and, collectively, as a speciescame