On the brain: What were they thinking?

19 May 2015 - 02:00
By Andrew Donaldson

The title of Gavin Evans' new work, Black Brain, White Brain: Is Intelligence Skin Deep? (Jonathan Ball), is seemingly problematic. Surely, we all know the answer to that question? Evidently not. Spend a few moments with this valuable and indeed welcome work and it becomes quite clear that there are a lot of supposedly learned folk out there who, frankly, should know better.

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