Patrick Bateson, Paul Martin, P. P. G. Bateson

Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the role of playfulness in animal and human development, highlighting its links to creativity and, in turn, to innovation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9781107015135
• ISBN-10: 1107015138
• Artikelnr.: 39126584

Autorenporträt

Patrick Bateson FRS is Emeritus Professor of Ethology at the University of Cambridge. He is President of the Zoological Society of London and former Vice-President of the Royal Society. Much of his scientific career has been concerned with the development of behaviour. He is also co-author of Plasticity, Robustness, Development and Evolution (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The biology of play
3. The functions of play
4. Evolution and play
5. Creativity in humans
6. Animals finding novel solutions
7. People and organisations
8. Childhood play and creativity
9. Humour and playfulness
10. Dreams, drugs and creativity
11. Pulling the threads together
Endnotes
References
Index.

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Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The biology of play; 3. The functions of play; 4. Evolution and play; 5. Creativity in humans; 6. Animals finding novel solutions; 7. People and organisations; 8. Childhood play and creativity; 9. Humour and playfulness; 10. Dreams, drugs and creativity; 11. Pulling the threads together; Endnotes; References; Index.

Rezensionen

'In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin show how play helps animals to find novel solutions and sows the evolutionary seeds for human creativity. They argue that being able to 'break the rules' in a protected environment, which is what play does, generates new ideas (creativity) and new ways of doing things (innovation). By looking at the conditions in which humans are at their most creative, they make a major contribution to what we might do to be even more creative than we are.' Marian Stamp Dawkins, University of Oxford, and co-author of An Introduction to Animal Behaviour (2012)