Creativity doesn’t have a deep history. The Oxford English Dictionary records just a single usage of the word in the 17th century, and it’s religious: ‘In Creation, we have God and his Creativity.’ Then, scarcely anything until the 1920s – quasi-religious invocations...
Agustín Fuentes’ The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional (Fuentes, 2017) identifies creativity and an ability to cooperate at an unprecedented scale as key driving forces in human evolution. Setting this book apart from others about the evolution...
Nancy C. Andreasen (2014) explores The Secrets of the Creative Brain, and the connection between creativity, genius and mental health. A leading neuroscientist who has spent decades studying creativity shares her research on where genius comes from, whether it is...
