Sounds occur in time, rather than space, and the brain has simply evolved a system for dealing with this aspect of nature, he said.

This is because our brains didn't evolve under conditions dominated by mass media.

They reveal that your big brain evolved to cope with gossip, not the other way around.

While the human brain has evolved, it was more about tool and language use.

Wolf's thesis is that the human brain did not evolve in order to read.

The degree to which this is possible depends very much on how the brain has evolved.

"This is just the way the human brain evolved," he said.

After all why should a brain evolved for catching African wildlife be able to solve everything?

The most common view of the time was that a large brain evolved before bipedality, the ability to move on two feet.

His brain had evolved some system whereby odds such as these could be met.