A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change

From: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

A BRAIN FOR ALL SEASONS: HUMAN EVOLUTION AND ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE William R. Calvin, 2002, 341 pp., $25.00, hardbound, University of Chicago Press ISBN 0-226-09201-1

In A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change, William Calvin argues that sudden climate flips catalyzed quantum leaps in human intelligence. Calvin, a theoretical neurobiologist, contends that famine and hominid population crashes following abrupt climate changes during the past 2.5 million years helped select for innovation, cooperation, and communication. Cold snaps, suddenly reversing rapid warming ...

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