Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity - Hardcover

Wagner, Andreas

 
9781541645332: Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity
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ISBN 10: 1541645332 ISBN 13: 9781541645332
Verlag: Basic Books, 2019

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How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science

In Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfection--instead, "progress" is typically marked by a sequence of peaks, plateaus, and pitfalls. For instance, in Picasso's forty-some iterations of Guernica, we see the same combination of small steps, incessant reshuffling, and large, almost reckless, leaps that characterize the way evolution transformed a dinosaur's grasping claw into a condor's soaring wing. By understanding these principles, we can also better realize our own creative potential to find new solutions to adversity.

Ultimately, Life Finds a Way offers a new framework for the nature of creativity, enabling us to better adapt, grow, and change in art, business, or science--that is, in life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andreas Wagner is a professor and chairman at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also the author of four books on evolutionary innovation. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1541645332
ISBN 13 
9781541645332
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320
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