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Written As A Travelogue, A Brain For All Seasons Makes The Fascinating Case That Our Brains Evolved In Size And Complexity Because Of Abrupt Climate Changes Around The Globe--and That We Haven't Seen The Last Of These Climate Swings. One Of The Most Shocking Realizations Of All Time Has Slowly Been Dawning On Us: The Earth's Climate Does Great Flip-flops Every Few Thousand Years, And With Breathtaking Speed. In Just A Few Years, The Climate Suddenly Cools Worldwide. With Only Half The Rainfall, Severe Dust Storms Whirl Across Vast Areas. Lightning Strikes Ignite Giant Forest Fires. For Most Mammals, Including Our Ancestors, Populations Crash. Our Ancestors Lived Through Hundreds Of Such Abrupt Episodes Since The More Gradual Ice Ages Began Two And A Half Million Years Ago--but Abrupt Cooling Produced A Population Bottleneck Each Time, One That Eliminated Most Of Their Relatives. We Are The Improbable Descendants Of Those Who Survived--and Later Thrived. William H.^ Calvin's Marvelous A Brain For All Seasons Argues That Such Cycles Of Cool, Crash, And Burn Powered The Pump For The Enormous Increase In Brain Size And Complexity In Human Beings. Driven By The Imperative To Adapt Withi

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Author

Calvin, William H.

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226092010

Category

science

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, Social_sciences

Rating

3.75 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13