num_pages: 320
description: How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art business and scienceIn Life Finds a Way  biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfection--instead progress is typically marked by a sequence of peaks plateaus and pitfalls. For instance in Picasso's forty-some iterations of Guernica  we see the same combination of small steps incessant reshuffling and large almost reckless leaps that characterize the way evolution transformed a dinosaur's grasping claw into a condor's soaring wing. By understanding these principles we can also better realize our own creative potential to find new solutions to adversity.Ultimately Life Finds a Way offers a new framework for the nature of creativity enabling us to better adapt grow and change in art business or science--that is in life.
language: English
title: Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity
publisher: Basic Books