Nicholas Humphrey is a School Professor in the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics. He is a theoretical psychologist, known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. His interests are wide ranging. He studied mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey in Rwanda, he was the first to demonstrate the existence of “blindsight” after brain damage in monkeys, he proposed the celebrated theory of the “social function of intellect, and he is the only scientist ever to edit the literary journal Granta. His books include Consciousness Regained, The Inner Eye, A History of the Mind, Leaps of Faith, The Mind Made Flesh and most recently Seeing Red. He has been the recipient of several honours, including the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, and the British Psychological Society’s book award.