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The English zoologist and neurophysiologist John Zachary Young explores the function of the brain, the way it facilitates communication between human beings, and the current scientific methods used to further our understanding of its capacity, in his Reith lecture series entitled 'Doubt and Certainty in Science'.

In his first lecture, entitled 'The Biologist's Approach to Man', J Z Young argues that the emphasis of biologists when considering the nature and functions of man has hitherto been wrong. He argues that biologists have been concentrating on those features of man that are obviously like those of animals; ie digestion, locomotion and so on. Young argues that the fact that man is a thinking creature, and a worshipping one, is much more significant.