From PRIs The World on radio yesterday. Ill link. This is about evolution, imagination, and survival: Scott Barry Kaufman, a cognitive psychologist and scientific director at the Imagination Institute in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, says people diagnosed with ADHD and people who we consider to be creative thinkers are extremely similar... “About 50,000 years ago when a band of us left Africa, went to Europe, and eventually conquered the world, in order to travel and go such distances it was found that there was a genetic mutation,” he says. “This particular genetic mutation is associated with dopamine and has also been associated with ADHD. Without these characteristics, we may not have become Homo sapiens.”
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:37:48 +0000
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