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How Autism and Invention Are Connected
Our unique ability to analyze patterns is at the root of a psychological disability and the talent that drives human development
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Jon Krause
Dec. 12, 2020 12:01 am ET
On the face of it, we shouldn’t expect any link between a neurological disability and one of the crowning talents of our species. But new research is revealing a surprising connection between autism and the uniquely human capacity for invention.
As the archaeological record shows, our ancestors started inventing things 70,000 to 100,000 years ago. This was when humans evolved the capacity to seek patterns particularly to spot and experiment with the basic cause-and-effect relationship of ....

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