As If by Design: How Creative Behaviors Really Evolve

ISBN-13: 9781108745109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 332 str.

Edward A. Wasserman

Opis

Forget insight and genius! The many creative things we make and do generally arise from sheer chance and trial-and-error learning.

Recenzje

'Recommended.' R. M. Davis, CHOICE

Spis treści

Section I. Introduction; Section II. The Vignettes; Part I. Sports; 1. Dick Fosbury's High Jump was No Flop!; 2. Shedding Fresh Light on the History of the Butterfly Stroke; 3. The Monkey Crouch: Jockeying for Position; 4. Riding Acey-Deucy; 5. The High Five: One Singular Sensation; Part II. Medicine; 6. The Apgar Score: 'Millions Have Been Saved'; 7. The Ponseti Method: Effective Treatment for Clubfoot Only 2,400 Years in the Making; 8. The Heimlich Maneuver; 9. Eating to Live: The Lifesaving Contribution of Stanley Dudrick; 10. What's in a (Drug) Name?; 11. Self-Medication by People and Animals; 12. Personalized Medicine: The End of Trial-and-Error Treatment?; Part III. Hygiene; 13. Florence Nightingale: Advancing Hygiene through Data Visualization; 14. Taking Mental Floss to Dental Floss; 15. A Very Close Shave; Part IV. Arts, Entertainment, and Culture; 16. Ansel Adams: Art for Art's Sake?; 17. Basil Twist: 'Genius' Puppeteer; 18. Moonwalking: And More Mundane Modes of Moving; 19. Play on Words; 20. Cuatro Festivals Españoles; 21. Tchaikovsky: Puzzles of the Pathétique; 22. The Evolution of the Violin: Survival of the Fittest or the Fondest Fiddle?; Part V. Is This Heaven? No, It's Iowa!; 23. The Rise and the Demise of the Iowa Caucus; 24. Iowa's Blackout Plates: Artistic License Hits the Road; 25. If I Write It, They Will Build It; Section III. Putting It Together; 26. Context, Consequence, and Coincidence; 27. Are We Just Making It Up as We Go Along?