Join neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli for the globetrotting, millenniaspanning history of how the human brain evolved… and is still evolving.

Dr Joseph Jebelli takes us on a sevenmillionyear journey through our own heads, drawing on insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, and philosophy to reveal how our brain’s evolution turned us into Homo sapiens and beyond.

Discover how memory has almost nothing to do with the past; magic mushroom use might be responsible for our intelligence; and how autism teaches us hugely positive lessons about our past and future.

A single mutation is all it takes.

Praise for Joseph Jebelli’s How the Mind Changed:
‘How did humans develop such a runaway mind? Joseph Jebelli masterfully illuminates the neurobiological road by which we arrived, and where it might reach from here’ – David Eagleman, bestselling author of Livewired and Incognito

‘An eye for thrilling details makes his approachable, sometimes provocative book an aptly mindexpanding experience for the curious reader’ – Mail on Sunday

‘Wonderfully clear, vividly readable and comprehensive ‘ – Times

Joseph Jebelli is a neuroscientist and a writer. He received a PhD in neuroscience from University College London for his work on the cell biology of neurodegenerative diseases, then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle. His much acclaimed first book, In Pursuit of Memory, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. He lives in London.