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portada Dragons of Eden
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
1986
Language
English
Pages
271
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
17.4 x 10.8 x 2.1 cm
Weight
0.14 kg.
ISBN
0345346297
ISBN13
9780345346292
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Dragons of Eden

Carl Sagan (Author) · Ballantine Books · Paperback

Dragons of Eden - Sagan, Carl

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Synopsis "Dragons of Eden "

"A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight."--The New York Times 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. "How can I persuade every intelligent person to read this important and elegant book? . . . He talks about all kinds of things: the why of the pain of human childbirth . . . the reason for sleeping and dreaming . . . chimpanzees taught to communicate in deaf and dumb language . . . the definition of death . . . cloning . . . computers . . . intelligent life on other planets. . . . Fascinating . . . delightful."--The Boston Globe"In some lost Eden where dragons ruled, the foundations of our intelligence were laid. . . . Carl Sagan takes us on a guided tour of that lost land. . . . Fascinating . . . entertaining . . . masterful."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Carl Sagan
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Carl Edward Sagan (New York, November 9, 1934-Seattle, December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, writer, and science communicator. Initially, he was an associate professor at Harvard University and later became the principal professor at Cornell University. At the latter, he was the first scientist to hold the David Duncan Professorship of Astronomy and Space Sciences, established in 1976, and was also the director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies.

He was an advocate for scientific skeptical thinking and the scientific method, a pioneer of exobiology, and a promoter of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence through the SETI project. He encouraged sending messages aboard space probes, intended to inform potential extraterrestrial civilizations about human culture. Through his observations of the atmosphere of Venus, he was among the first scientists to study the greenhouse effect on a planetary scale.

Carl Sagan gained great popularity thanks to the award-winning documentary television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, produced in 1980, of which he was the narrator and co-author. It was the most-watched series in the history of American public television, with an audience of more than 500 million people in about 60 countries. To accompany the series, the book Cosmos was published. He also wrote the 1985 science fiction novel Contact, which was the basis for the eponymous 1997 film. His publications, which contain 595,000 articles, are archived in the Library of Congress.

He also published numerous scientific articles, and was the author, co-author, or editor of more than twenty popular science books. In 1978, he won the Pulitzer Prize for "General Non-Fiction Literature" for his book The Dragons of Eden.

Throughout his life, Sagan received numerous awards and honors for his work as a communicator of science and culture. Today, he is considered one of the most charismatic and influential science communicators, thanks to his ability to convey scientific ideas and cultural aspects to the general public with simplicity yet rigor.
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Tomás Betinyani Oviedo Sunday, February 24, 2013
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Buen libro, aunque se nota que no es la rama científica en la cual Carl demuestra mayor expertise. Además, algunos datos, ahora en el 2013, están añejos. Aún así, siempre es un agrado leer al "poeta del Cosmos" en su lengua nativa.

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 Beatriz Apablaza Friday, July 07, 2023
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Un clásico que se debe leer cada cierto timepo.

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