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

William H. Calvin

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#1405 of 3,809 books · #134 in Science & Technology

Won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (2002).

A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution & Abrupt Climate Change won the 2002 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science. Mankind has recently come to the shocking realization that our ancestors survived hundreds of abrupt and severe changes to Earth's climate. In this unique travelogue, William H. Calvin takes us around the globe and back in time, showing us how such cycles of cool, crash, and burn provided the impetus for enormous increases in the intelligence and complexity of human beings--and warning us of human activities that could trigger similarly massive shifts in the planet's climate.

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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226092034
Topics
Human evolutionClimate changeBrain development

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