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The creative spark : how imagination made humans exceptional / AgustÃn Fuentes.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101983942 (hc)
- ISBN: 1101983949 (hc)
- ISBN: 9781101983966 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 1101983965 (trade pbk.)
- Physical Description: viii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, New York : Dutton, [2017]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Philosophical anthropology. Imagination. Creative ability. Human behavior. |