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William H. Calvin

Born

in Kansas City, Missouri, The United States

April 30, 1939

Website

http://williamcalvin.com/

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William H. Calvin, Ph.D., is a theoretical neurobiologist, Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of a dozen books, mostly for general readers, about brains and evolution.

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Cause and Climate

(another refugee from that black hole at letters@nytimes.com)

The short headline reads, “Drought’s Link to Climate Change Is Disputed” (New York Times, Justin Gillis). The evidence cited, however, is a version of “We’ve seen this before,” which might be an appropriate response had someone said “unprecedented” but which does not help establish doubt about a role of climate change. This misleads. Why

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Average rating: 3.87 · 852 ratings · 97 reviews · 40 distinct works • Similar authors

	Conversations With Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature Of Thought And Language by William H. Calvin, George A. Ojemann 3.95 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The River That Flows Uphill: A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain 4.32 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1986 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond 3.74 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change 3.78 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness 3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1989 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain by William H. Calvin, Derek Bickerton 4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence 3.60 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1990 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Throwing Madonna 3.67 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1983 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How the Shaman Stole the Moon: In Search of Ancient Prophet- Scientists from Stonehenge to the Grand Canyon 3.20 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Our civilization will, of course, be "playing God" in an ultimate sense of the phrase: evolving a greater intelligence than currently exists on earth. It behooves us to be a considerate creator, wise to the world and its fragile nature, sensitive to the needs for stable footings that will prevent backsliding -- and keep that house of cards we call civilization from collapsing.”
― William H. Calvin, How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then And Now

tags: civilization, intelligence

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“It takes a heavy commitment to quality education for all to avoid that stratification of society, those needless degrees of separation. But even the present-day United States has lost what commitment it used to have to free education of high quality. Anyone reading the annual surveys of science literacy (another example: fewer than half of Americans know that the earth orbits the sun once a year) has to wonder how badly most people are going to be left behind, further along into the 21st century, whether they too will become "stubborn, apathetic, and perverse" toward a scientific and technological world they must view as magical, beyond their comprehension, accessible only via the right incantations.”
― William H. Calvin, A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change

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