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David P. Barash,
The Wall Street Journal
... an impressively brisk intellectual tour through the glory days of early 20th-century evolutionary biology.
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Kathleen McBroom,
Booklist
Wagner...provides multiple examples from nature that mirror how medical breakthroughs, artistic spurts, and technological innovations often come after multiple failures or as unanticipated results of seemingly unrelated experimentation.
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Publishers Weekly
In this intricate but accessible work, evolutionary biologist Wagner draws a fascinating analogy between how nature innovates to optimize itself and how human creativity works.
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Kirkus
A thoughtful search for parallels between biological and human innovation.