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THE DRAGONS OF EDEN 33 Weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List Carl Sagan is a very special scientist! He’s that teacher you always wish you had—and his book, The Dragons of Eden, is a masterpiece of instructive entertainment! “Carl Sagan has the Midas touch. Any subject he deals with turns to gold, and so it is in The Dragons of Eden. Never have I read anything on the subject of human intelligence as fascinating and as charming.” ISAAC ASIMOV “Provocative … Entertaining … Impressive … Even those of us who are not heavyweight thinkers will wish to pillow our craniums a bit more carefully at night after reading Sagan. He makes you realize that the gray mass between your ears is quite a treasure.” Chicago Daily News “Not all great thinkers are scientists, and not all scientists are great thinkers, but Sagan—young, zealous and imaginative—is both … THE DRAGONS OF EDEN…is really quite super.” Philadelphia Inquirer “Daring speculations and great fun … He argues for the worth and dignity of other species, even unknown species. If the alien creatures should ever touch down here, Sagan is one of those who would get a call in the middle of the night.” The Baltimore Sun “Extraordinary! … Exciting! … Sagan’s perspective ranges from the emergence of life on earth four billion years ago to the limitless possibilities for expanding human intelligence … A masterpiece of scientific writing for non-scientists.” Chicago Tribune “Absorbing … fascinating … The man writes clearly and well and often with humor … explaining, probing and relating with grace the story of the human brain.” Associated Press “Marvelous! … There are rewards of many sorts in this provocative book!” The Wall Street Journal “A joy! … A Carl Sagan is … a gifted and charismatic figure … he has become the idol of a whole generation of students.” The Washington Post Book World “In some lost Eden where dragons ruled, the foundations of our intelligence and passions were laid … Carl Sagan takes us on a guided tour of that lost land … Fascinating … Entertaining … Masterful!” St. Louis Post-Dispatch By Carl Sagan Published by Ballantine Books: BROCA’S BRAIN COSMOS THE DRAGONS OF EDEN MURMURS OF EARTH SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (with Ann Druyan) COMET (with Ann Druyan) PALE BLUE DOT THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD BILLIONS AND BILLIONS A Ballantine Book Published by The Random House Publishing Group Copyright © 1977 by Carl Sagan All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Ballantine and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. www.ballantinebooks.com Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-53472 eISBN: 978-0-30780100-5 This edition published by arrangement with Random House, Inc. v3.1 PERMISSION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS , this page and this page: Courtesy of The Escher CHAPTER OPENINGS Foundation—Haags Gemeentemuseum—The Hague. This page and this page: From “The Great Ravelled Knot” by George W. Gray, Scientific American, October 1948, pp. 32–33. Copyright © 1948 by Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved. This page: From The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 26, pp. 365–381, Figure 1 (1965). Reproduced by copyright permission of Rockefeller University and Dr. Elizabeth Gantt. This page: Reprinted by permission of Science News: The Weekly News Magazine of Science. Copyright © 1976 by Science Service Inc. This page: From “Effects of Focal Brain Injury on Human Behavior” by Hans-Lukas Teuber on page 462 of The Nervous System, Volume 2: The Clinical Neurosciences, edited by Donald B. Tower (New York: Raven Press, 1975). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. This page: From p. 60 of Mankind in the Making, revised edition by William Howells, drawings by Janis Cirulis. Copyright © 1959, 1967 by William Howells. Reproduced by permission of Doubleday and Company, Inc. This page: LIFE NATURE LIBRARY, Early Man, by F. Clark Howell and the Editors of TIME-LIFE Books, drawings by Jay H. Matternes. Copyright © 1965, 1973 Time, Inc. Reprinted by permission. Photograph by Henry B. Beville. This page: From Not From the Apes, by Björn Kurtén. Copyright © 1972 by Björn Kurtén. Reprinted by permission of Pantheon Books, a Division of Random House, Inc. This page and this page: Courtesy of Dr. Beatrice and Dr. Robert Gardner, Department of Psychology, The University of Nevada, Reno. This page and this page: From “Reading and Sentence Completion by a Chimpanzee,” by Duane M. Rumbaugh et al., Science, November 16, 1974, Volume 182, pp. 731–733, Figures 1 and 2. Copyright © 1973 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Reprinted by permission of the publisher and Dr. D. M. Rumbaugh. This page: Photograph courtesy of Dr. fames Maas, Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Slide #7, Slide Group for General Psychology, Set 2; published by McGraw- Hill, Inc., 1974. This page: From “A New Specimen of Stenonychosaurus from the Oldman Formation (Cretaceous) of Alberta” by Dale A. Russell. Reproduced by permission of the National Research Council of Canada from the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 6, pp. 595–612; 1969. This page: From a mural by Charles R. Knight. Courtesy of The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Reprinted by permission. This page: From “The Split Brain in Man” by Michael S. Gazzaniga, Scientific American, August 1967, Volume 217, #2, page 26. Copyright © 1967 by Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved. This page and this page: From “Perception in the Absence of the Neocortical Commissures” by R. W. Sperry, pp. 126, 129, in Perception and Its Disorders, Proceedings of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, December 6 and 7, 1968, Volume 48. Copyright © 1968 by the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. This page: Originally published in Neuropsychologia, Volume 9, pp. 247–259. Copyright © 1971 by Pergamon Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Pergamon Press. This page: From “The Split Brain in Man” by Michael S. Gazzaniga, Scientific American, August 1967, Volume 217, #2, page 28. Reprinted by permission of the author. This page: LIFE NATURE LIBRARY, Early Man, by F. Clark Howell and the Editors of TIME-LIFE books, drawings by Jay H. Metternes. Copyright © 1965, 1973 Time, Inc. Reprinted by permission. Photograph by Henry B. Beville. This page: From The Conscious Brain by Steven Rose. Copyright © 1973 by Steven Rose. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. this page and this page: Photographs courtesy of the Computer Graphics Department, Cornell University. This page: Photograph courtesy of MOTOROLA Semiconductor Products, Inc.

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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,
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