the brain is a "cobbled-together mess."

David Linden, a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, doesn't see it that way. To him, the brain is a "cobbled-together mess." Impressive in function, sure. But in its design the brain is "quirky, inefficient and bizarre ... a weird agglomeration of ad hoc solutions that have accumulated throughout millions of years of evolutionary history..."

This is just what I've been trying to describe to my social psych classes in describing Wilson's idea of the adaptive unconscious.