All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language,...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2006-10-26

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How can we account for the sudden appearance of such dazzling artists and scientists as Mozart, Shakespeare, Darwin, or Einstein?How can we define such genius? What conditions or personality traits seem to produce exceptionally creative people? Is the association...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1999-07-08

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