When others exult in the wonders of the brain, its elegant design and optimal functionality, neuroscientist David Linden retorts, "Rubbish!" This Johns Hopkins professor refutes popular notions of the brain as a paragon of design by revealing it to be a hodgepodge of solutions shaped by the shifting sands of evolution. Dr. Linden argues that we owe many central human traits, including the search for love and desire for long-term relationships, to these scattershot adjustments. He insists that even our search for religious or scientific explanations can be traced to the brain's illogical development. An eye-opening inquiry into basics.