About this title: 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 legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries. "A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before ...
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Description: Acceptable. Book shows wear to corners and edges of cover. Spine has wear at edges. Contains notes/highlighting/underlining throughout book. Book is in good reading condition. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780345346292ISBN:0345346297
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Light hint of page tanning from age. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 271 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780345346292ISBN:0345346297
Description: Very Good. This book is in very good to near fine condition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The cover has bumps and scuffs. There is light creasing on the spine. There is a price label on the back cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House (1967).
Description: Dust Jacket Included. Natural History. 5th printing. Hardcover, price intact dust jacket. Black cloth binding. Index, b/w illus. and photos, 263pp [1]. Picture endpapers. Clean interior. ** faults: cloth color dull, spine letters are beginning to wear. Dust jacket has short tears, light pencilled phone number on rear jacket flap. VG minus / VG minus dj in mylar. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, NY
Date Published: 1977
Description: Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library. Large 8vo. Mylar cover DJ is bumped. Cover is bumped. Pgs. are clean except for usual library markings in book. read more
Edition: 3rd printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, NY
Date Published: 1977
Description: Hardcover, 263 pp, NF/ VG+ DJ. Lightly bumped corners and spine ends. Light wear and yellowing at DJ edges. Slight cover bow. NO MARKS. Price intact. About human evolution. Mind-blowing revelations. Speculations on the evolution of human intelligence, read more
"I liked Carl Sagan. I felt this book was different from his other books and was more speculation than factual data. I read this quite some time ago and am a bit fuzzy about some of what it was about but if recall correctly it speculated much about the cruelty we sometimes see committed by humans."
"This book is about the evolution of human intelligence, and it provided insight into the workings of human cognitive thought. It explained the evolutionary background that causes our brains work the way they do, and it also gave a thorough explanation of the hardware responsible for each behavioral trait."
"One of the better 'easy' scientific reads out there. Although it's more than 40 years old and some of the writing is outdated (the chapter about computers) Sagan brings up interesting points and writes about them in interesting ways.
Too bad I came after his time. I would have loved to sit around, get high, and talk about Apes with him."
"This somewhat difficult read will certainly open your eyes to who and what we are, and how we came to be the dominant species on the planet. You may find yourself not too proud to be human, as the origins of our much-touted intellegence which separates us from the beasts comes into focus. Evolutionary Anthropology rewritten for the masses, but still sometimes tedious and hard to follow; I found myself rereading several pages just to absorb all the information. I'm looking forward to more Sagan, as I have collected a number which I have not yet opened."
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