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Nicholas Humphrey
Nicholas Humphrey
Born
Nicholas Keynes Humphrey
(1943-03-27) 27 March 1943 (age 81)
Nationality
English
Alma mater
Trinity College, Cambridge
Spouse(s)
Caroline Waddington (m. 1967; div. 1977)
Ayla Kohn
(m. 1994)
Children
2
Awards
Mind & Brain Prize (2015)
Scientific career
Institutions
London School of Economics
Doctoral advisor
Lawrence Weiskrantz
Doctoral students
Dylan Evans
Nicholas Keynes Humphrey (born 27 March 1943) is an English neuropsychologist based in Cambridge, known for his work on evolution of primate intelligence and consciousness. He studied mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey in Rwanda; he was the first to demonstrate the existence of "blindsight"[citation needed] after brain damage in monkeys; he proposed the theory of the "social function of intellect"[citation needed]. He is the only scientist to have edited the literary journal Granta.
Humphrey played a significant role in the anti-nuclear movement in the late 1970s and delivered the BBC Bronowski memorial lecture titled "Four Minutes to Midnight" in 1981.
His 10 books include Consciousness Regained, The Inner Eye, A History of the Mind, Leaps of Faith, The Mind Made Flesh, Seeing Red, and Soul Dust. He has received several honours, including the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, the Pufendorf Medal and the British Psychological Society's book award.
He has been lecturer in psychology at Oxford, assistant director of the Subdepartment of Animal Behaviour at Cambridge, senior research fellow at Cambridge, professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research, New York, and school professor at the London School of Economics.
Nicholas Keynes Humphrey (born 27 March 1943) is an English neuropsychologist based in Cambridge, known for his work on evolution of primate intelligence...
Caroline Waddington married NicholasHumphrey; they had no children and divorced in 1977. In 1986, she married Martin Rees. Humphrey has conducted research...
be a genetic throwback to pre-bipedal hominid locomotion. However, NicholasHumphrey, who accompanied the documentary makers, concluded that it was due...
manage complex social change.[citation needed] Neuropsychologist NicholasHumphrey believes that social intelligence defines who we are as humans. An...
immunologist NicholasHumphrey (born 1943), British psychologist Philip Strong Humphrey (1926–2009), American ornithologist Thomas M. Humphrey (born 1935)...
renamed as Hurstbourne. In Hill's time, according to his grandson NicholasHumphrey, regular guests at the house included 18 exiled Nobel laureates, his...
immediate study by them also concluded in a negative tone. Psychologist NicholasHumphrey famously stated that social intelligence, rather than qualitative...
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 38th vice president of the United...
cognitive and anthropological scientists such as Pascal Boyer and NicholasHumphrey have endorsed Singh's approach, although other researchers have criticized...
Neuroscientist and evolutionary psychologist Roger Keynes, psychologist NicholasHumphrey and medical scientist John Skoyles have argued that the gait of these...
Kaya Rose Scodelario-Davis (née Humphrey; born 13 March 1992) is a British actress. She first came to prominence co-starring on E4's Skins (2007–2010,...
earnings are exactly as the laws of chance predict.: 309 Psychologist NicholasHumphrey argues that many experiments in psychology, biology or physics assume...
intellectualization phase, but this was not the case. American archaeologist NicholasHumphrey compared his childhood drawings to cave paintings, particularly those...
foreign: the cult of the "great mother" in imperial Rome". In Thomas, Nicholas; Humphrey, Caroline (eds.). Shamanism, history, and the state. Ann Arbor: University...
evolution" and he named the condition Uner Tan syndrome. However, NicholasHumphrey, John Skoyles, and Roger Keynes have argued that their gait is due...
Stewart, Nicholas Wolterstorff, E. Thomas Lawson, Nathan A. Jacobs, Stephan van Erp, David Brown 253 6 "Can Art Reveal God's Traits?" Nicholas Wolterstorff...
the psychologist NicholasHumphrey. Humphrey advances a hypothesis about consciousness that has been criticised as speculative. Humphrey describes his book...
Needs) Ruth Winifred Howard Ethel Dench Puffer Howes Clark L. Hull NicholasHumphrey Edwin Hutchins Bärbel Inhelder William James, (James–Lange theory...
(HMS) is an evolutionary medicine regulative process proposed by NicholasHumphrey in which actuarial assessment of fitness and economic-type cost–benefit...
Contemporary Prosecution and Punishment of Animals"" (PDF). (178 KB) (2003) NicholasHumphrey, ""Bugs and Beasts Before the Law"" (PDF). Archived from the original...
physicist Alan Guth inventor W. Daniel Hillis theoretical psychologist NicholasHumphrey geneticist Steve Jones biologist Stuart Kauffman complex systems specialist...
Roman and the Foreign: The Cult of the 'Great Mother'". In Thomas, Nicholas; Humphrey, Caroline (eds.). Imperial Rome. Shamanism, History, and the State...
The Medical Dimensions of Nuclear War, W. H. Freeman, 1982. (With NicholasHumphrey) In a Dark Time: Images for Survival, Harvard University Press, 1984...
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