Learning
Borrow an idea from another field
In 1838, Charles Darwin found the key to natural selection in a book about human population. A study of 17.9 million research papers suggests that work mixing familiar knowledge with some unusual combinations is more likely to stand out.
Major #4: BiologyThe story: Charles Darwin (1830s). The book: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein.
In this lesson
- A puzzle in a pocket notebook
- An idea from a book about people
- Millions of papers, one pattern
- The book: Range
- What the evidence says about Range
- Where this comes from
- Try it today
- 4 questions to check yourself