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How the Mind Changed

A Human History of Our Evolving Brain

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The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved by Royal Society Prize shortlisted neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli.

No other life form on the planet has generated a brain like ours. How did a bundle of cells weighing just 1.2 kg give rise to conscious, self-aware beings capable of understanding time, language, mathematics and music, of exploring outer space and sequencing their own DNA? The answer to such questions is a seven-million-year saga.

How the Mind Changed is the definitive audiobook on human brain evolution: a sweeping natural history. Beginning with the first primate brain and the rise of our present-day, large human brain, it will describe the remarkable origin of our species' most mysterious organ, how it has developed and how it will change in the future. To study the brain is to study the essence of what makes us human.

©2022 Joseph Jebell (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Biological Sciences Evolution Evolution & Genetics Science Human Brain
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It is very unfortunate that the opinions of the author are shining through more than the actual science (and the alleged subject of the book). There are so many examples of this that it is not possible to list them here, but as an simple example:
Joseph Jebelli claims that Feynmans IQ to be somewhat mediocre. Seemingly based on a high school test Feynman joked about during his life. However, even the shallowest background check points to something entirely different:

From "The nature of mathematical thinking" by Professor Robert J. Sternberg and Professor Talia Ben-Zeev:
"It was probably a paper.and-pencil test that had a ceiling and an IQ of 125 under these circumstances is hardly to be shrugged off. because it is about 1.6 standard deviations above the mean or 100. The general experience of psychologists in applying tests would lead them to expect that Feynman would have made a much higher IQ if he had been properly tested"

Stunningly the chapter is named: "The Truth About Intelligence".

Facts mixed with opinions raises questions ...

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