02127cam a2200301 i 4500 443625541 TxAuBib 20201207120000.0 200514s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020019709 9781541647145 HRD 28.00 1541647149 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Baron-Cohen, Simon. The Pattern seekers [BOOK] : how autism drove human invention / Simon Baron-Cohen. First edition. New York : Basic Books, 2020. xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Born pattern seekers -- The systemizing mechanism -- Five types of brains -- The mind of an inventor -- A revolution in the brain -- System-blindness: why monkeys don't skateboard -- The battle of the giants -- Sex in the valley -- Nurturing the inventorsof the future. Why 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. How? 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. Ultimately, 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. Provided by publisher. 20201207. Autism. Autistic people.