Black-And-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World

by Kevin Dutton

Book Overview

A groundbreaking and timely book about how evolutionary biology can explain our black-and-white brains, and a lesson in how we can escape the pitfalls of binary thinking.

Several million years ago, natural selection equipped us with binary, black-and-white brains. Though the world was arguably simpler back then, it was in many ways much more dangerous. Not coincidentally, the binary brain was highly adept at detecting risk: the ability...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374110344
• ISBN13: 9780374110345
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"