Publisher's Synopsis
Humans are addicted to imitation and especially to making art. Everyone on earth can respond to it and make it to one degree or other. The book asks if there is a survival advantage that drives this universal impulse. From the cave dwellers to our young children today, we are still making the same hand prints and squiggles. So the author seeks a deep neural investigation into what is going on here. If this is actually a physical activity and tangible object, then what is involved to take it from a thought to a free standing object? Examination of our most distant hominid cousins and their output sheds light on their under-appreciated brain power and creative sophistication evident but overlooked in their tool-making.
