Nicholas Humphrey

Nicholas Humphrey is a world renowned psychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. His interests are wide ranging. He studied mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey in Rwanda, he was the first to demonstrate the existence of ‘blindsight’ after brain damage in monkeys, he proposed the celebrated theory of the ‘social function of intellect’, and he is the only scientist ever to edit the literary journal Granta.

He has been Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, New York, and School Professor at the London School of Economics. He is currently a Senior Member of Darwin College, Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of Economics, and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities.