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  • 6 - Evolutionary Approaches to Creativity

  • from Biological Underpinnings
  • Edited by James C. Kaufman, University of Connecticut, Robert J. Sternberg, Cornell University, New York
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity
  • Published online: 12 April 2019
  • Print publication: 25 April 2019, pp 109-131

  • Summary

    This chapter explores evolutionary approaches to creativity. The process of biological evolution has a close relation with manifestations of human creativity, since both generate novelty within contexts of high complexity. After some general considerations about evolution, I describe the phylogenetic history of our hominin ancestors, focusing on the archaeological evidence of stone tool use and other early manifestations of creativity. I then discuss evolutionary mechanisms that may have given rise to our species’ creative capacity, including natural and sexual selection, as well as evolutionary metaphors that have influenced contemporary psychological theories of creativity and cultural evolution. I end by considering the value of an evolutionary approach to creativity, in terms of potential research directions and a richer understanding of creativity more broadly.

The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
  • 2nd edition
  • Edited by K. Anders Ericsson, Robert R. Hoffman, Aaron Kozbelt, A. Mark Williams
  • Published online: 10 May 2018
  • Print publication: 17 May 2018
  • In this updated and expanded edition of The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, some of the world's foremost experts on expertise share their scientific knowledge of expertise and expert performance and show how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of development, training, reasoning, knowledge, and social support. The book reviews innovative methods for measuring experts' knowledge and performance in relevant tasks. Sixteen major domains of expertise are covered, including sports, music, medicine, business, writing, and drawing, with leading researchers summarizing their knowledge about the structure and acquisition of expert skills and knowledge, and discussing future prospects. General issues that cut across most domains are reviewed in chapters on various aspects of expertise, such as general and practical intelligence, differences in brain activity, self-regulated learning, deliberate practice, aging, knowledge management, and creativity.

  • 10 - Musical Creativity

  • from Part II - Creativity in the Traditional Arts
  • Edited by James C. Kaufman, University of Connecticut, Vlad P. Glăveanu, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway, John Baer, Rider University, New Jersey
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity across Domains
  • Published online: 15 September 2017
  • Print publication: 28 September 2017, pp 161-180

  • Summary

    Abstract

    Music is a paradigmatic domain of creative activity, culturally ubiquitous and manifested in a multitude of ways. Here I explore music as a domain of human creativity – both as a specific “content” domain informing productive aspects of musical creativity, and as a domain of mind, whose evolutionary backstory constrains the reception of music. In discussing the phylogenetic emergence of human musicality, I highlight possible tensions in the creative dynamic between novelty and canalized aesthetic preferences. A richer discussion of the creative process in music follows, illustrated by anecdotal and interview accounts as well as laboratory and archival studies, which collectively have shed substantial light on contemporary theories of creativity. I close by discussing the role of socio-cultural factors in musical creativity and some possible future directions for research.

  • 6 - The evolutionary genetics of the creativity–psychosis connection

  • from Part II - Cognitive and neuroscientific perspectives on creativity and mental illness
  • Edited by James C. Kaufman, University of Connecticut
  • Book: Creativity and Mental Illness
  • Published online: 05 August 2014
  • Print publication: 07 August 2014, pp 102-132

  • Summary

    Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy or politics or poetry or the arts are clearly melancholics?

    – Aristotle

    Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

    – Dobzhansky (1973)

    Introduction

    Schizophrenia, a debilitating mental illness affecting roughly 1 percent of the population worldwide, is widely accepted as being highly genetically influenced (Cardno et al., 1999; Gershon et al., 1988; Kendler and Diehl, 1993). Schizophrenia is often marked by distortions of reality, disorganized thought, emotional blunting, and/or social isolation that may interfere with optimal functioning (Cornblatt et al., 2012). Schizophrenia may be associated with creativity, although research findings are mixed (e.g., Andreasen, 2011; Kyaga et al., 2013). Evidence also points to adverse effects on fertility and reproductive success among (particularly) males with schizophrenia (Svensson et al., 2007), in part accounted for by marital status (McCabe et al., 2009), suggesting potential biological and social influences. Collectively, this raises an intriguing potential evolutionary puzzle: How does schizophrenia persist in the population at a stable prevalence rate too high to be explained by simple random mutation? (Doi et al., 2009; see also Del Giudice et al., 2010). Among various hypotheses, including in the context of the emerging field of evolutionary epidemiology, schizophrenia may represent “one extreme of a sexually selected fitness factor” (Shaner et al., 2004).

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