Kevin Dutton
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"How the evolutionary history of the human brain explains our tendency to sort the world into black-and-white categories"--
Several million years ago, natural selection equipped us with binary, black-and-white brains. This binary brain was highly adept at detecting risk: the ability to analyze threats and respond to changes in the sensory environment was essential to our survival as a species. Since then, the world has evolved-- but we, for the most...