A Brain for All Seasons (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William H. Calvin
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Anthropology, archaeology, environment, natural history, and science
- Time of Work: Five or six million years ago to the present
- Genres: Nonfiction, Anthropology, Science and technology
- Subjects: Nature, Science or scientists, Human race, Environment or environmental health, Archaeology or archaeologists, Vegetarianism, Ice Age, Evolution, Life sciences, Brain, Fossils, Earth sciences, Greenhouse effect or global warming
This fascinating work is sprinkled with tidbits from archaeology and seasoned with quotations from sources as varied as novelist Mark Twain and physicist Werner Heisenberg. While William H. Calvin’s stated agenda is to explain his theory that abrupt climate change influenced the development of the human brain, he focuses much more on explaining the mechanisms that effect climate change in the past and in the present. This is a bit of a disappointment, as a book with such a tantalizing premise, which actually does provide strong factual support for his ideas and brings the discussion...
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