Life Finds a Way

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.

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 Arrival of the Fittest, 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?

Report

'An impressively brisk intellectual tour through the glory days of early 20^th century evolutionary biology.'
Wall Street Journal

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Wagner, Wagner Andreas
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.05.2020
• EAN: 9781786077738
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-773-8
• No. of pages: 320
• 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