Spark Minds Episode 2: Creativity, Evolution and why it matters

Why does creativity exist and why does it matter? In this episode we take a trip to the stone age to see what human evolution and anthropology has to tell us about why we engage in creativity as a species and what that means for us today. 

Why does creativity exist and why does it matter? In this episode we take a trip to the stone age to see what human evolution and anthropology has to tell us about why we engage in creativity as a species and what that means for us today.

SHOW NOTES:

Evolution and Creativity

• Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts by Colin Martindale, Paul Locher, Vladimir M Petrov, Arnold Berleant

• The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity edited by Mark Turner

• The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity edited by James C. Kaufman, Robert J. Sternberg

• Sternberg, Robert J. “Darwinian Creativity as a Conventional Religious Faith.” Psychological Inquiry, vol. 10, no. 4, 1999, pp. 357–359. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1449464. Accessed 16 Feb. 2020.

• https://creativesomething.net/post/150681325800/where-exactly-does-creativity-exist-within-the