The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution

About this book

Nicholas Humphreys writings about the evolution of the mind have done much to set the agenda for contemporary psychology. Here in a series of riveting essays he invites us to take another look at a variety of the central and not-so-central issues: the evolution of consciousness the nature of the self multiple personality disorder the placebo effect cave art religious miracles medieval animal trials the seductions of dictatorship and much more.