Introduction

Roxanne Jones: Reason has long been considered to be one of humankind's best attributes. Why are human beings the only animal that seems to possess it, she asks. She says other animals would certainly benefit from this kind of cognitive superpower as well. But why over three and a half billion years of evolution were human being the only creatures that seemed to evolve this capacity in any significant degree? And if reason is truly the superpower that we often claim it to be, why are we so bad at it? writes Jones.