Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity

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

Hardcover: 320 pages

Publisher: Basic Books (June 11 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1541645332

ISBN-13: 978-1541645332

Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.6 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds