# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-h-calvin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:57:27.167Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-h-calvin"
name: "William H. Calvin"
slug: "william-h-calvin"
description: "William H. Calvin is an American theoretical neurophysiologist and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is known for popularizing neuroscience and evolutionary biology, including the hybrid of those two fields, neural Darwinism. He relates abrupt climate change to human evolution and more recently has been working on global climate change issues."
tagline: "American academic"
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birthDate: "1939-04-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump