![]() ![]() ![]() Where bees have a million neurons, humans have a hundred billion, and vast swathes of these are given over to the activities in between sensation and action. The book is light on the detail of neuroscience, but offers a thumbnail sketch of the neural architecture of imagination. We bend, break and blend pre-existing materials to create new pathways, products and practices. The emergence of the iPhone has a history, as do the riffs of Jimi Hendrix. It is always a reimagining and reconstitution of existing ideas, artefacts or habits. It is a paean to the ingenuity of the human species, a description of the anatomy of creativity and a rallying cry to cultivate our skills for the benefit of our collective future.Įmploying a broad, lavishly illustrated tableau of examples, from Picasso’s Demoiselles D’Avignon to the Apollo 13 mission, the authors demonstrate how innovation never emerges from a vacuum. This collaboration between a neuroscientist and a composer is not primarily a book about education, though it has much to say to our profession by implication. The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World ![]()
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