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

Wagner, Andreas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786077736 ISBN 13: 9781786077738

Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 2021

Synopsis

How can new insights into evolution help us solve problems in life, art, business and science?

‘A wonderful, mind-expanding book. Prepare to be surprised, enlightened and awed.’ Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors

In Darwin’s survival of the fittest, each step must be uphill as life progresses towards an evolutionary peak. There is no turning back. So what happens when life needs to cross a valley in the wilds of an adaptive landscape to reach the highest summit?

World-renowned biologist Andreas Wagner reveals that life does not only walk – it also leaps.

Drawing on pioneering research, Wagner explores life’s creative process and how 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.

Life Finds a Way is a thought-provoking and deeply hopeful look at the force that shapes our world.

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About the Author

Andreas Wagner is a professor and chairman at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich. He is the author of four books on evolutionary innovation, including Life Finds a Way, which is also published by Oneworld. He lives in Zurich.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786077736
• ISBN 13: 9781786077738
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320