Consciousness in action? It is tempting to think that’s what is going on – but wrong (Image: Hans Neleman/Getty)

Update, 3 June 2011: Raymond Tallis’s Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the misrepresentation of humanity (Acumen) is out today. You can catch him the Cheltenham Science Festival, UK, on 7 June, questioning the prevailing wisdom that neuroscience and evolutionary theory are enough to explain human consciousness. And he‘s giving a lecture at the Royal Institution, London, on 7 July, covering similar ground and laying into what he sees as the dominant pseudo-Darwinian thought that defines what we are.

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