Professor of Anthropology, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley
Dr Terrence Deacon obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 1984. Since then he has held faculty positions at Harvard University, Boston University, and the University of California Berkeley. He was also a Research Associate at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr Deacon's research ranges from laboratory neuroscience to evolutionary anthropology. Besides over 100 journal articles and book chapters, he has published two widely cited award winning books. The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Human Brain (1997), which was awarded the J. I. Staley Prize in 2005 (considered the "Pulitzer Prize of Anthropology") and Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (2011) which was listed as the Forbes Non-fiction Book of the Year in 2012. He is currently completing a third book, tentatively titled Falling Up: How Inverse Darwinism Catalyzes Evolution that addresses the processes at all levels of evolution that catalyze the transition to higher levels of organism individuality, such as are involved in the evolution of the noosphere.
