title: Barnes and Noble Routledge Classics set: Aping Mankind (Volume 143)
author:  Raymond Tallis 
description: <P>"A trenchant, lucid and witty attack on the reductive materialism of many scientific accounts of consciousness."  <EM>David Lodge, The Guardians Books of the Year </EM></P> <P>"Neuroscience, we are implausibly informedwill help dispense with evil. Who better to debunk its pretensions while instructing us in its uses than wise, literate Raymond Tallis, a neuroscientist himself, in his entertaining <I>Aping Mankind</I>."  <EM>George Walden, Evening Standards Best Books of the Year<BR><BR></EM>"With erudition, wit and rigour, Tallis reveals that much of our current wisdom is as silly as bumps-on-the-head phrenology."  <EM>Jane OGrady, The Observer<BR></EM><BR>"Impassioned and intensely erudite."  <EM>Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times</EM></P> <P>"Raymond Tallis is one of the very few contemporary thinkers whom I would unequivocally call a genius." - <I>The Scotsman on Sunday</P></I> <P><BR>&nbsp;</P>
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