6/28/2023 0 Comments Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan"A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday.It's a delight" (The New York Times). Carl Sagan takes the reader on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends-and their amazing links to recent discoveries. a consequence of its anatomy and physiology and nothing more"-in reference to the works of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. In the introduction Sagan presents his thesis-that "the mind. The Dragons of Eden is an expansion of the Jacob Bronowski Memorial Lecture in Natural Philosophy which Sagan gave at the University of Toronto. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. He wrote many popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Brocas Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Inscribed by Carl Sagan on the half-title page. Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence.įirst edition of Sagan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work, which combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a perspective on how human intelligence may have evolved.
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