In the book "The Origin of Personality and Human Intelligence," the famous Russian journalist, TV presenter and publicist Alexander Nevzorov summarizes the data of classical neurophysiology and summarizes the indisputable scientific facts about the morphology and evolutionary history of human brain functions. Here are distinct, detailed, not clouded by psychology, mysticism and pseudoscientific speculation interpretations of such concepts as "consciousness," "reason," "personality," "thinking" and "intelligence." The book offers a comprehensive answer to the question: what does a person mean by the word "soul," and what is it really? The author managed to combine together and describe a huge number of scientific approaches to the study of the human brain - from the first beliefs of the ancient world to modern research, from neuromorphology and structural features of the brain to the influence of hormones and the structure of the cortex on human actions and the formation of his personality. The publication is equipped with many black and white illustrations, explanatory tables, a reference and bibliographic index.