Bibliograph

The creative spark, how imagination made humans exceptional, Agustín Fuentes

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The creative spark, how imagination made humans exceptional, Agustín Fuentes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The creative spark

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

954224182

Responsibility statement

Agustín Fuentes

Sub title

how imagination made humans exceptional

Summary

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

Table Of 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

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