Terrence Deacon

Terrence W. Deacon has held faculty positions at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Boston University, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Distinguished Professor emeritus of Anthropology and Cognitive and Brain Sciences. His laboratory research has focused on comparative and developmental neuroanatomy to study the mechanisms that determine brain structure and evolution. He has published over 100 scientific articles and two books: The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain (1997) and Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (2011). He is currently working on a new book tentatively titled Falling Up: How Inverse Darwinism Catalyzes Evolution.