Stanley Albert Gooch (born 1932 in Lewisham, London, died 13 September 2010)[1] was a British psychologist and author who is probably best known as the proponent of a "hybrid-origin theory" of human evolution.
Gooch's first book Total Man (1972) was an attempt to examine all fields of interest relevant to humans today.
On the back cover of the American print of Total Man Stan Gooch states: In various chapters of Total Man Gooch outlined what would become the basis of his theories when he showed that phenomena can be divided into two columns, which he titled System A and System B, later associated with Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal lineage, respectively.
Gooch develops the theory that the cerebellum, rather than the right hemisphere of the brain, is responsible for dreaming, creativity and paranormal experience.
[2] Thinker and novelist Colin Wilson, on the other hand, argues that Gooch's work forms "one of the most impressive and exciting intellectual structures of the second half of the twentieth century.