Life Finds a Way

¿This is a wonderful, mind-expanding book. Prepare to be surprised, enlightened and awed as Wagner reveals the sources of human and natural creativity.¿
¿ Alice Roberts
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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.

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Wagner, Wagner Andreas
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781786076151
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-615-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 233 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Evolution, popular science, SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Cell Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Microbiology, Popular philosophy