Excellent, all about the brain and how it makes us who we are - my kind of pop science book :)

1/12/17 - This is a brilliant book that tries to explain the development of the human brain and human beings as social animals. Although at times the science was confusing - for me - I got the main thrust. Counter-intuitively us big-brained primates are not born with a complete functional brain that defines us an immutable and unique individual person with a personality (although some traits are around from day 1). We do however have a flexibility and capacity to learn and adapt to changing circumstances, contexts and environmental factors in our long post-natal development, in fact for life! What is needed to complete ‘us’ is a rich an stimulating social world…

I will write more for an upcoming blog post that I am planning, watch this space