The Creative Spark with Agustin Fuentes - a podcast by Bunch of Apes Podcast

In a previous episode with Briana Pobiner, she recommended a book called The Creative Spark by Agustin Fuentes. It got it the next day on Audible. It was fantastic. I contacted Agustin and somehow convinced him to talk to me on the podcast.

Agustín Fuentes is an American primatologist and biological anthropologist at Princeton University and formerly the chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. He has written several books including the awesome Creative Spark and his most recent work [next on my list] Why we Believe.

In this episode we spoke about his work as a primatologist, the incredible and often surprisingly sophisticated social skills of primates and Apes. This conversation escalated to me babbling on about memories of an orangutan fiddling with himself in front of me and my nan....... so we moved on.

We discussed The Creative Spark and how it is the imagination, the ability to create something that didn't exist from things that do, that separates us from other species. Once again, the discussion moved towards the importance of Neuro-diversity in our species in what was a thoroughly enjoyable and fun conversation with someone with some really important and well studied ideas on our pre-historical journey.

To follow Agustin and find out more about his work you can find him on twitter @anthrofuentes and his books are available at all good online retailers.

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