The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World

The human ability to create is unique. But where does the instinct to innovate come from, and how does it work? Why does our hunger for novelty drive us to keep designing new buildings, new bikes, new hairstyles? How do we imagine things that don’t yet exist? And, in a world which is changing faster than ever before, how do we prepare our children to meet the creative challenge of making the future? Weaving together art and science, neuroscientist David Eagleman and composer Anthony Brandt explore the miraculous ways our runaway species bends, breaks and blends the world to make it new.

Reviews of The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World

The unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius — GEOFF DYER * * Observer * * Mind-blowing revelations abound * * Financial Times * * Entertaining and profound: page-turning neuroscience from a bit of a genius * * Guardian * * A shining example of lucid and easy-to-grasp science writing * * Independent * * A fun read by a smart person for smart people . . . It will attract a new generation to ponder their inner workings * * New Scientist * * Popular science at its best * * Boston Globe * * Appealing and persuasive * * Wall Street Journal * * Essential and timely . . . a smart, captivating book that will give you a prefrontal workout * * Nature * * David Eagleman is a brilliant neuroscientist, a bestselling author and a man of enormous discernment * * The Sunday Times * * The posterboy of neuroscience with ideas that will stretch your mind * * Observer * * The rock star of neuroscience * * Telegraph * * Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness * * New Yorker * * David Eagleman may be the best combination of scientist and fiction-writer alive — STEWART BRAND David Eagleman is the kind of guy who really does make being a neuroscientist look like fun * * New York Times * * Eagleman provides an excellent overview of the workings of our most vital organ * * Sunday Times * * Bringing a storyteller's articulate and fluid narrative to a scientist's quest, Eagleman dances across an incredible spectrum of issues * * Brainpickings * *