by Lewis Wolpert · Faber & Faber · tapa dura · ISBN 9780571209200
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«Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast» is Lewis Wolpert's essay, published by Faber & Faber in hardcover (288 pages, in English).
Lewis Wolpert investigates why some people believe in angels, abductions or amulets. He analyzes the psychological basis of beliefs and their possible evolutionary origin in the cause-effect relationship, and reviews cases such as animals, children, religious people or psychiatric disorders. He also asks whether it is possible to live without beliefs or whether society needs them.
The work carries the subtitle The Evolutionary Origins of Belief; this edition is from 2006.
Aimed at readers interested in the science of beliefs and popular psychology.
Lewis Wolpert was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert popularized his French flag model of embryonic development, using the colours of the French flag as a visual aid to explain how embryonic cells interpret genetic code for expressing characteristics of living organisms and explaining how signalling between cells early in morphogenesis could inform cells with the same genetic regulatory network of their position and role.
