- Evolution, Behavioral Genetics, Brain. 0, Intelligence
Presents an overview of human evolution and discusses human and animal intelligence, the mechanisms of the brain, memory, sleep, myths and legends about evolution, and the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life.
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Cool, earnest, epic and spare.
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Carl Sagan
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 271
- Publisher
- Círculo do Livro, Brilliance Audio, E Yayınları
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- tur, Portuguese, French, heb
- ISBN
- 9788467404609
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“Jacob Bronowski is one of a small group of men and women in any age who find all of human knowledge - the arts and sciences, philosophy and psychology - interesting and accessible.”
Carl Sagan was an American Pulitzer-prize winning author and astrophysicist. Sagan is the author of more than 600 publications. <q>“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” </cite>― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark</cite></q>
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