'Celebrates human cognitive diversity and is rich with empathy and psychological insight'
Steven Pinker 'Bold intriguing profound' Jay Elwes Spectator Why can humans alone invent? In
this book psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen puts forward a bold
new theory: because we can identify patterns specifically if-and-then patterns. Baron-Cohen
argues that the genes for this unique ability overlap with the genes for autism and have driven
human progress for 70 000 years. From the first musical instruments to the agricultural
industrial and digital revolutions Pattern Seekers links one of our greatest human strengths
with a condition that is so often misunderstood and challenges us to think differently about
those who think differently.
