
The Creative Spark
How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
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In the tradition of Jared Diamond's million-copy-selling classic Guns, Germs, and Steel, a bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth?
Creativity. It is the secret of what makes humans special, hiding in plain sight. Agustín Fuentes argues that your child's finger painting comes essentially from the same place as creativity in hunting and gathering millions of years ago and throughout history in making war and peace, in intimate relationships, in shaping the planet, in our communities, and in all of art, religion, and even science. It requires imagination and collaboration. Every poet has her muse; every engineer, an architect; every politician, a constituency. The manner of the collaborations varies widely, but successful collaboration is inseparable from imagination, and it brought us everything from knives and hot meals to iPhones and interstellar spacecraft.
Weaving fascinating stories of our ancient ancestors' creativity, Fuentes finds the patterns that match modern behavior in humans and animals. This key quality has propelled the evolutionary development of our bodies, minds, and cultures, both for good and for bad. It's not the drive to reproduce, nor competition for mates or resources or power, nor our propensity for caring for one another that has separated us out from all other creatures.
As Fuentes concludes, to make something lasting and useful today you need to understand the nature of your collaboration with others, what imagination can and can't accomplish, and, finally, just how completely our creativity is responsible for the world we live in. Agustín Fuentes' resounding multimillion-year perspective will inspire listeners - and spark all kinds of creativity.
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“The Creative Spark is strong on man’s imaginative accomplishments and offers an important corrective to the skewed debate on human nature. A species that, uniquely, ponders its own exceptionality will surely be fascinated by it.” (The Economist)
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Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates that at least 17 - among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp - have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation.
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Simply awful
- De Mike A Klotz en 02-07-20
De: Edward O. Wilson
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I, Mammal
- De: Liam Drew
- Narrado por: Neil Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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A list of the attributes that define a mammal is a ragbag of things - fur, live birth, three bones in the middle ear, a brain whose two halves are robustly joined together.... But this curious collection of features contain the roots of all the biology that makes us what we are: monkeys with massive brains who parent extensively, enjoy sport and think lots. Which is to say, what makes us mammals makes us human.
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Who knew?
- De Fitmen en 04-25-18
De: Liam Drew
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered
- How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (Revised and Updated Edition)
- De: Dimitra Papagianni, Michael A. Morse
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals' behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in their prime, harvested seafood, and communicated with spoken language. Meanwhile, advances in DNA technologies are compelling us to reassess the Neanderthals' place in our own past.
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Fascinating Subject... Soporific Reader
- De Andrew E. Yarosh en 11-21-17
De: Dimitra Papagianni, y otros
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- De: Richard L. Currier
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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Good facts, not much else
- De Joel B. Gordon en 10-30-16
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How to Build a Dinosaur
- Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
- De: Jack Horner, James Gorman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, we've all seen dinosaurs - or at least somebody's educated guess of what they would look like. But what if it were possible to build, or grow, a real dinosaur without finding ancient DNA? Jack Horner, the scientist who advised Steven Spielberg on the blockbuster film Jurassic Park and a pioneer in bringing paleontology into the 21st century, teams up with the editor of the New York Times's Science Times section to reveal exactly what's in store.
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Good book but misplaced title
- De Robert en 06-19-15
De: Jack Horner, y otros
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Pandora's Seed
- The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
- De: Spencer Wells
- Narrado por: Spencer Wells
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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This new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project, focuses on the seminal event in human history: mankind's decision to become farmers rather than hunter-gatherers.
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Short and unfocused, but often quite interesting.
- De Alan en 06-23-10
De: Spencer Wells
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How the Dog Became the Dog
- From Wolves to Our Best Friends
- De: Mark Derr
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question of how wolf became dog has remained a mystery, obscured by myth and legend. How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate. The natural temperament and social structure of humans and wolves are so similar that as soon as they met on the trail they recognized themselves in each other.
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Interesting and thorough, but not for everyone
- De N. Rogers en 12-12-11
De: Mark Derr
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Domesticated
- Evolution in a Man-Made World
- De: Richard C. Francis
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist. We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization - the Middle East - is where sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, and cats commenced their fatefully intimate associations with humans.
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Well, what did you expect?
- De Mark en 03-25-16
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On Human Nature: Revised Edition
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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This revised edition of Human Nature begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?
With characteristic pungency and simplicity of style, the author of Sociobiology challenges old prejudices and current misconceptions about the nature-nurture debate.
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A Heralding Voice...
- De Douglas en 07-22-14
De: Edward O. Wilson
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Sex, Time, and Power
- How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
- De: Leonard Shlain
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female's pelvis and the increasing size of infants' heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for reconfiguration of hormonal cycles, entraining women with the periodicity of the moon - and imbuing women with the concept of time.
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Interesting conjecture
- De DJKPP en 10-15-20
De: Leonard Shlain
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Paleontology
- A Brief History of Life
- De: Ian Tattersall
- Narrado por: Brett Barry
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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Ian Tattersall, a highly esteemed figure in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and paleontology, leads a fascinating tour of the history of life and the evolution of human beings. Starting at the very beginning, Tattersall examines patterns of change in the biosphere over time, and the correlations of biological events with physical changes in the Earth's environment.
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great summary of where we are with understanding
- De david en 06-25-11
De: Ian Tattersall
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Cannibalism
- De: Bill Schutt
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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Eating one's own kind is a completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons related to famine, burial rites, and medicine. Cannibalism has also been used as a form of terrorism and as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt takes us on a tour of the field, exploring exciting new avenues of research and investigating questions like why so many fish eat their offspring and some amphibians consume their mothers' skin.
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Ruined it at the end
- De Kimberly Ames en 12-07-17
De: Bill Schutt
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
- De: David Hone
- Narrado por: Gavin Osborn
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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Adored by children and adults alike, tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, triceratops, or velociraptors in Jurassic Park. But despite the hype, tyrannosaurus and the other tyrannosaurs are fascinating animals in their own right and are among the best-studied of all dinosaurs.
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An Engaging Biography of the King
- De Erik en 08-06-18
De: David Hone
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- Anonymous User
- 05-28-23
Educative
Nicely describe the how we evolve and makes you more understand why thing are, as they are now from understanding what our ancestors were dealing with and how they were solving a problems
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- Mark
- 05-02-17
What's new?
I’ve probably listened to about 15 books dealing with the history of humanity. One thing they pretty much all have in common is that they generally have some kind of hypothesis, or central idea, that they are trying to support. Some kind of new angle or perspective to help us to think about humanity in a new way.
This book claims to do this, but I don’t think it succeeds. Its central idea is a ‘new synthesis’ upholding the idea that human creativity is the crucial factor defining who and what we are. But really, isn’t this just another way of saying that we are big-brained, clever, cooperative creatures who have exploited the ‘intelligence’ niche in the World? I think it is. We all know that this is what we’ve done, and this author doesn’t add anything new to our thinking on this.
It’s an enjoyable enough book, retelling the story of hominids and hominins and tool-making and becoming successful at hunting, despite our lack of any fearsome body parts such as sharp claws or fangs, and our mastery of fire. I’m pretty easy to please on this front. I love going back to the savanna and imagining how our ancestors used their wits to survive in a harsh unforgiving world.
But there is no new theory in this book. And the final chapter, in which the author dishes out a load of advice on how we should live our lives, based on his now-proven hypothesis, verges on the irritating. But go ahead and listen to it. It isn’t bad, and it’s educational and entertaining, it just doesn’t, in my opinion, contain the new theory which the author claims will better explain the human journey.
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- D. B. Williams
- 10-27-17
Interesting book, irritating performance.
I enjoyed the substance of the book, and appreciated some ideas that had not previously been 'front and centre' in my thinking. Specifically, the idea that animals create 'niches' for themselves, modifying the environment in a way that feeds back as selection pressure on future generations, particularly as the human 'niche' expanded to include toolmaking, language, domestication of the food supply, and eventually cities. The narrator was extremely irritating - he often uses a staccato presentation that separates words into separate units, providing (often) unwarranted emphasis. In addition, he tends to commence sentences loudly, and then trail off at the end into a soft, muffled, poorly projected articulation of what is often the crux of the thought, leaving you struggling to understand the point of the sentence or paragraph. I often lost the thread of the story as I took time to realise he had said 'beads' and not 'bees', or 'Balinese' and not 'Bolognese', or 'forager' and not 'forger'. In the end I spent far too much time being irritated, trying to decipher the narrator's performance, and too little time concentrating on the author's thoughts.
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- Tssh
- 05-18-23
Lovely
I’ve enjoyed listening to this book and this author, and I hope to read more in the future. Thank you.
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- Federico
- 01-17-18
Wow. Accidental gem
I found this book by sheer accident and have enjoyed it so thoroughly that this will be the first review I ever took the time to write. The author tells an amazingly coherent and interesting story. He lays out the science in a very easy to understand way and gives supporting evidence in abundance. But it doesn’t read like a scientific book. It reads like a wonderful and entertaining history of humanity. Also, this is one of only a few books where the author does an excellent job of narrator. Very engaging.
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- tom allen
- 04-16-23
Well done, logical
Reading this history of man’s development had infinite possibilities but this work explained it with sensitivity, not to offend faith based evolution. The creation processes has a science to it that gives reasonable observations. Worthy of the read time. Thanks
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- Anand Pareek
- 09-28-17
Not pure Antropology but still a very good read
The book talks in a very smooth way the creative self has impacted the creation of human society the way it is and how it is bound to take shape in the future. It is a very good read if you are keen on topic.
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- Beth
- 07-20-18
Excellent
This book should be required reading for all humans! The narration was also just perfect.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-25-20
A great evolutionary investigation into the origins of hominid creativity
The author provides a thorough and optimistic perspective into human creativity and its origins. The author cites a wealth of existing literature in making claims pertaining to human creativity. The book is also very fair and objective, a great read for anybody interested in paleo anthropology!
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- "ctung@csua.berkeley.edu"
- 06-02-21
excellent journey and scientific approach of modern anthropology
very thorough and deeply thoughtful book; can’t put it down. it is hard to capture all of human evolution in one book but Fuentes does pretty amazing job. it includes facts that dismisses the “roots” of science used to explain racism, sexism, misogyny, and religious fundamentalism - kudos to Fuentes for blowing these very modern structures of bias away so succinctly and elegantly. however, what i was hoping for the later chapters were sadly missing. where Fuentes immaculately directed the readers to the importance of creativity in solving humanities biggest challenges. he falls short in reality; his message felt inadequately and prohibitively positive. it misses points of danger as various groups are subverting “scientific analysis” to fit their biases, eg the small but vocal group perpetuating anti-vaccine “science” and significant impact in recovery from the COVID pandemic or climate-science deniers. and the part about addressing environmental catastrophe felt written off in his tone of let’s be creative, consider diversity, and let’s make mistakes. while these are good mantras as guidelines, we can’t afford to make mistakes given the agonizing adoption of climate policies. and diversity is important but until individuals and groups/corporations take accountability seriously, acknowledging diversity as important isn’t not going to get us anywhere - we need a way to really integrate it. while change takes time, what to do when we are really running out of time?
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