6/22/2023 0 Comments The dragons of eden by carl sagan![]() ![]() ![]() (Really? This one? Not Cosmos or The Demon-Haunted World?) I have the first edition and read it when it came out, then reread it a couple years ago ago after seeing it the sole Sagan title listed in an ambitious, and well-informed, book by James Mustich called 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List (2018). He admits this in his intro, justifying his theme by suggesting how the lessons of biology, in particular evolution, can not only suggest how humanity might proceed into the future, but how this might inform his special interest: the search for extraterrestrial life (SETI). Second, it was on a topic adjacent to the fields he was best known for, as the subtitle indicates. First, it was the first solo book of his to be written through, as a book, rather than a compilation of earlier articles or an anthology of pieces by others. This was Sagan’s first book since his 1973 hit The Cosmic Connection (revisited here), and is distinctive in two ways. ![]() Carl Sagan: The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence. ![]()
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