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William H. Calvin

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American academic

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1939 · age 87
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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.

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2006Walter P. Kistler Book Award

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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.

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United States
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Born 1939 · age 87
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