Essays on the brain leap from the philosophical to the comical, from the scientific to the mundane, through which the average person can peer into the elusive world of neurobiology and find greater understanding of the human race.

Interesting essay collection from 1983. (Small update in 1991). I happened upon it as I chased a rabbit down a hole while gathering references that debunk the left-/right-brain myths, which Calvin calls out in his chapter titled "Left Brain, Right Brain: Science or the New Phrenology?" Certainly not rigorous in his critics, Calvin posits educated opinions...which in the case of the split-brain hypothesis perpetrated by Roger Sperry and his followers seems to be mostly incorrect. Recent fMRI studies (unavailable to Sperry, or Calvin at the time of writing) reveal that while creativity seems to originate in the right brain, the left brain appears to be more involved in the results.

One rabbit hole checked. Three more uncovered. It never ends. ( )