Kevin Dutton

Several million years ago, natural selection equipped us with binary, black-and-white brains. This binary brain was highly adept at detecting risk: the ability to analyze threats and respond to changes in the sensory environment was essential to our survival as a species. Since then, the world has evolved-- but we, for the most part, haven't. Dutton shows that, while our instinct for categorization often encourages polarization, rigid thinking, and...