ABSTRACT
Bad news, I’m afraid. The culmination of six million years’ worth of neurological evolution is not the GCSE.
The human brain is the product of millions upon millions of adaptations and changes, which ensures that we are the ones best able to cope with what life will throw at us. And I am sorry to say that a key stage 2 SAT or a French vocabulary test is not among the eventualities that natural selection has prepared us for. Perhaps if the consequences of not having done your homework had been far more stringent hundreds of thousands of years ago, this might not be the case, but it is.
