Agustin Fuentes

¿Qué hizo que los humanos fueran tan excepcionales entre todas las especies de la Tierra?Fuentes afirma en este sorprendente libro que el secreto de lo que hace especiales a los humanos está en la creatividad: que la pintura con los dedos que hace nuestro hijo procede esencialmente del mismo lugar que la creatividad usada hace millones de años para cazar y recolectar. Todo esto requiere una colaboracion que es inseparable de la imaginacion, y que nos lo ha aportado todo, desde los cuchillos y la comida caliente a los iPhones y las naves espaciales interestelares.Una sintesis novedosa y valiente de las ideas mas punteras en paleontologia, arqueologia, genetica y antropologia que echa abajo ideas equivocadas sobre el sexo, la raza, la guerra y la paz y la propia naturaleza humana. ¿Hasta que punto nuestra creatividad es completamente responsable del mundo en el que vivimos?

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. Agustin Fuentes argues that your childs 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. Its not the drive to reproduce; nor competition for mates, or resources, or power; nor our propensity for caring for one another that have 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 cant accomplish, and, finally, just how completely our creativity is responsible for the world we live in. Agustin Fuentess resounding multimillion-year perspective will inspire readersand spark all kinds of creativity.