The world is always changing. The things that change with it, that flexibly adapt to its new demands, are the things most likely to survive and flourish. Charles Darwin’s take on this theme has profoundly influenced our understanding of the natural history of the living world. In Harry Karlinsky’s The Evolution of Inanimate Objects: The Life and Collected Works of Thomas Darwin (1857–1879) we learn that Darwin’s eleventh and youngest child extended and applied his father’s work to the domain of man-made…
Mark J. Fenske
Mark Fenske, a neuroscientist and former faculty member at Harvard Medical School, is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Guelph. He is the co-author of the best-selling The Winner’s Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success (Da Capo, 2010).