'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.
