The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention Hiroshi Takashige Glen Rose and Mark Schatz

Glen Rose and Mark Schatz

María Susana|Horowitz

Kerry J|Meurisse

Complemented by dozens of full-color illustrations

prophesying monkeys and "the most famous trick never performed

The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention Hiroshi Takashige Glen Rose and Mark SchatzA groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity. Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy thousand years, from the first tools to the digital revolution. How? Because