Edited by W R Uttal (Pp 255, £27.50). Published by MIT Press, USA, 2001. ISBN 0 262 210 177

The notion that particular areas of the brain mediate specific functions is central to neurological diagnosis. In the 19th century, phrenologists made the rather bolder suggestion that particular cortical functions were reflected in the shape of the overlying skull, a claim not thought credible nowadays. However, William Uttal thinks that a modern variant of phrenology is alive and well, in the shape …