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

Calvin, William H.

 
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Synopsis

Winner of 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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À propos de l?auteur

William H. Calvin is professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle and the author of fourteen books, including A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Climate Change, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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9780226092010: A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0226092011 ISBN 13 :  9780226092010
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2002
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