*A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick*? An "ambitious work" (Washington Post) tracing the links between autism and ingenuity? ?Is the ability to invent things unique to humans? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen argues that it is, and proposes that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy to one hundred thousand years, from the first complex tools like the bow and arrow and the first musical instrument to the digital revolutio...