?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Human+creativity%3A+its+evolution%2C+its+cognitive+basis%2C+and+its+connections+with+childhood+pretence.&rft.creator=Carruthers%2C+Peter&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=This+paper+defends+two+initial+claims.+First%2C+it+argues+that+essentially+the+same+cognitive+resources+are+shared+by+adult+creative+thinking+and+problem-solving%2C+on+the+one+hand%2C+and+by+childhood+pretend+play%2C+on+the+other%C2%BEnamely%2C+capacities+to+generate+and+to+reason+with+suppositions+(or+imagined+possibilities).+Second%2C+it+argues+that+the+evolutionary+function+of+childhood+pretence+is+to+practice+and+enhance+adult+forms+of+creativity.+The+paper+goes+on+to+show+how+these+proposals+can+provide+a+smooth+and+evolutionarily-plausible+explanation+of+the+gap+between+the+first+appearance+of+our+species+in+Southern+Africa+some+100%2C000+years+ago%2C+and+the+'creative+explosion'+of+cultural%2C+technological+and+artistic+change+which+took+place+within+dispersed+human+populations+some+60%2C000+years+later.+The+intention+of+the+paper+is+to+sketch+a+proposal+which+might+serve+as+a+guide+for+future+interdisciplinary+research.&rft.publisher=Blackwell&rft.contributor=Clark%2C+Peter&rft.date=2002&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2237%2F1%2FCreative-thinking.htm&rft.identifier=++Carruthers%2C+Peter++(2002)+Human+creativity%3A+its+evolution%2C+its+cognitive+basis%2C+and+its+connections+with+childhood+pretence.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2237%2F