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books - W.H. Calvin

The River That Flows Uphill: A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain. All chapters are webbed, with inline photographs and sound files from Leonard Thurman's Grand Canyon River Running web pages.

via wood s lot.

Or if you prefer, read his latest: A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change.

All of his books are "webbed" online.
I have only read them in paper format.
As best I can recall, I've read
How the Shaman Stole the Moon
The Ascent of Mind
The Cerebral Symphony

I am a fan. But a rather behind-the-times one as you can see from the publication dates. Long time since I read any Calvin, as you can see, it barely made the bottom of my chronological books read list. (Note: the list is imperfect - like many pages I got tired of updating it - there are book reviews buried in my blog I haven't gotten around to putting on that permapage.)

I liked in Ascent how he tried to work out the sheer difficulty of getting the human brain big enough, fast enough, with an evolutionary justification. It's actually quite challenging to do. posted by Richard at 22:12 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)