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Life Finds a Way - What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity (Hardcover) Loot Price: R138
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Life Finds a Way - What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity (Hardcover): Andreas Wagner

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

Andreas Wagner

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Darwin’s theory of evolution was a monumental achievement, but there was much he did not know. In his ‘survival of the fittest’ model each step must go forward, life always progressing up the slope towards an evolutionary peak. There is no turning back. So what happens when there is more than one slope, and life finds itself on the wrong one? World-leading biologist Andreas Wagner reveals that life does not, as Darwin believed, only walk – it also leaps.

Drawing on pioneering research, Wagner explores life’s creative process and how, with all the stops and starts, and knowing that sometimes things have to get worse before they get better, it bears a striking resemblance to how we humans work. A beguiling symmetry links Picasso struggling through forty versions of Guernica and the way evolution transformed a dinosaur’s claw into a condor’s wing. This new understanding is already revolutionising our approach to problem-solving across the sciences. In the near future, applied in spheres as diverse as the economy and education, it will enable us to do so much more. Thought-provoking and deeply hopeful, Life Finds a Way reminds us that no matter how many times we have to turn back, we can still reach the highest peaks.

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Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2019
Authors: Andreas Wagner
Dimensions: 225 x 146 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-1-78607-615-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution
Books > Philosophy > General
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LSN: 1-78607-615-2
Barcode: 9781786076151

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