John Robert Skoyles is a neuroscientist and evolutionary psychologist. He studied philosophy of science at the London School of Economics and then did MRC funded research upon neuroscience and dyslexia at University College London.
He published a letter while a first year undergraduate in the science journal Naturebiography The Third Culture Edge Foundation on the left lateralizing role of the Greek alphabet and the origins of Greek and Western civilization. He is the coauthor of a book, Up from Dragons: The Evolution of Human IntelligenceSkoyles JR. Sagan D. (2002). Up from Dragons: The evolution of human intelligence. McGraw-Hill, New York. with Dorion Sagan upon the role of neural plasticity, the prefrontal cortex, symbols upon human evolution and the rise of modern human cognition. Being himself a dyslexic,Famous people with dyslexia: Inventors & scientists he has written about the development of dyslexia and neural networks, and the role of the brain in dyslexia.
In 2004 he initiated and was a consultant for the BBC documentary The Family That Walks On All FoursThe Family That Walks On All Fours, Passionate Productions, first broadcast BBC2, Friday 17 March 2006 that reported on the Ulas family, the first humans reported that could not walk bipedally but who were proficient quadrupedal runners and walkers.Humphrey N. Keynes R. Skoyles JR. (2006). Hand-walkers : five siblings who never stood up. Discussion Paper. Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London, UK.
He is a member of the Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology at University College London and the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics.
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