*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 t