![]() ![]() From here we quickly move onto the theme of the book, and that is, human intelligence where he returns again and again to the old axiom of brain size dictating intelligence though, to be fair, he does begin with an explanation of why he believes this to be so. In “The Dragons of Eden” he turns himself to the world of Biology, a subject in which he admits he is not an expert relying on such experts to supplement his thinking.īeginning with the now-familiar “cosmic calendar” that condenses the life-span of the universe into a familiar construct: an Earth year, we are humbled to think that we occupy quite a small fragment of the final seconds of the final day of the year. Carl Sagan is probably best known for his “Cosmos” television series where he attempts to explain the concepts of modern (at the time) physics to ordinary viewers. ![]()
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