Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity

How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science


In 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 st...