Nicholas Humphrey

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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	Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, Pufendorf Medal, Mind & Brain Prize
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, Soul Dust, and Sentience. He has received several honours, including the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, the Pufendorf Medal and the Mind and Brain Prize.

He has been lecturer in psychology at Oxford, assistant director of the Subdepartment of Animal Behaviour at Cambridge, professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research, New York, and school professor at the London School of Economics.