The Pattern Seekers

A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity. 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 p