William H. Calvin, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $24.04 (528p) ISBN 978-0-02-520920-6
Neurobiologist and novelist (The Throwing Madonna Calvin uses a 14-day voyage through the Grand Canyonin the company of fellow scientistsas a vehicle for discoursing on earth history and evolution. This is a superb account of the river journey as a...
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William H. Calvin, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05707-2
Neurobiologist Calvin's wispy, New Age-flavored travelogue--abuzz with cormorants and skunks, insects and plants of Woods Hole, Mass., and its littoral environs--ensheathes his fairly technical exposition of the neurophysiology of mind. Some readers
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William H. Calvin, Author Bantam Books $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07740-7
This provocative, informative yet sometimes dry catalogue sets out to unravel methods used by ancient ``prophet-scientists'' that may have boardered on the scientific to predict eclipses and seasonal changes. Although the work leaps around without...
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William H. Calvin, Author Oxford University Press $26 (219p) ISBN 978-0-19-515907-3
""What is it like, to be a chimpanzee?"" asks Calvin, a neurobiologist at the University of Washington, in the first chapter of this fascinating history of the mind. While humans and other primates share many cognitive abilities, an accumulation of...
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William H. Calvin, Author, George A. Ojemann, With Addison Wesley Publishing Company $24 (343p) ISBN 978-0-201-63217-0
The Neil named in the title, identified as an engineer who became epileptic after fracturing his skull, undergoes brain surgery to remove part of his temporal lobe in the hope of eliminating his seizures. By stimulating his cerebral cortex, doctors...
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William H. Calvin, Author, Derek Bickerton, Joint Author Bradford Book $55 (304p) ISBN 978-0-262-03273-5
Eminent linguist Noam Chomsky says (and most linguists accept) that humans are hardwired for speech: as Calvin and Bickerton have it, ""Language is a biologically-determined, species-specific, genetically-transmitted capacity,"" a capacity people...
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William H. Calvin, Author, Sierra Club, Author Random House (NY) $18 (528p) ISBN 978-0-87156-719-2
This is an account of a two-week river voyage through the Grand Canyonin the company of fellow scientistsand a vehicle for discoursing on earth history and evolution. ""Readers who enjoy adventure stories may discover they also enjoy good scientific
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