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‘The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World’

By Anthony Brandt & David Eagleman

Elevator pitch The authors look at art and science together to examine how innovations—from Picasso’s initially offensive paintings to Steve Jobs’s startling iPhone—build on what already exists and rely on three brain operations: bending, breaking and blending. This manifesto of sorts shows how both disciplines foster creativity.