The Dragons of Eden
by Sagan, Carl
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 1977. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dr. Carl Sagan takes us 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 legendsand their amazing links to recent discoveries. "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 The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Broca's Brain and Cosmos takes us on a powerful and compelling voyage to the inner space between our ears, offering his vivid insight into the brain of man and beast, the origins of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries. Illustrations and photos. 263 pages..
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence is a Pulitzer prize winning 1977 book by Carl Sagan. In it, he combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a well balanced perspective of how human intelligence evolved. One of the main issues featured in the book is the search for a quantitative way of measuring intelligence.
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- Title
- The Dragons of Eden
- Author
- Sagan, Carl
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- Paperback
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- New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 1977
- Keywords
- BRAIN GENETIC PSYCHOLOGY INTELLECT MEDICAL NEUROSCIENCE GENERAL SCIENCE GENETICS 0394410459
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