{"product_id":"the-pattern-seekers-how-autism-drives-human-invention","title":"The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention","description":"A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity.\n\nWhy 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.\n\nHow? Because the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking that is essential to our species's inventiveness. However, these abilities exact a great cost on autistic people, including social and often medical challenges, so Baron-Cohen calls on us to support and celebrate autistic people in both their disabilities and their triumphs.\n\nUltimately, The Pattern Seekers isn't just a new theory of human civilization, but a call to consider anew how society treats those who think differently.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1541647157\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1541647157.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Baron-Cohen, Simon\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41487866953786,"sku":"DBV.1541647157.G","price":12.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1541647157-0.jpg?v=1782325095","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-pattern-seekers-how-autism-drives-human-invention","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}