The Evolutionary Origins of Human Imagination

By identifying what brain structures forge new objects and scenes, scientists can look back over the course of evolution to see when creativity emerged.

You can easily picture yourself riding a bicycle across the sky even though that’s not something that can actually happen. You can envision yourself doing something you’ve never done before – like water skiing – and maybe even imagine a better way to do it than anyone else.

By Andrey Vyshedskiy

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