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 The Dragons of Eden Information
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 The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence is a Pulitzer prize[1] winning 1977 book by Carl Sagan. In it, he combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a well... 
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 Skeptic Dragons
01/01/2008: 4,197 words, approx. 14 pages HELLO! I'm Daniel, the Editor of JUNIOR SKEPTIC. Welcome to our look at the ultimate monster: the dragon! The idea of dragons stretches as far back as our most ancient writings. Almost every culture around the globe has told tales of huge,... summary from source:
Film - Dienst Eden
11/23/2006: 952 words, approx. 3 pages 37 902 Eden KINOSTART 23.11.2006 Eden Eden Deutschland/Schweiz 2006 Produktion Gambit Film/SWR/BR cineplus/C-Films/SF/ Teledub Schweiz Produzenten Michael Jungfleisch, Robby Geisler, Peter Reichenbach, Andi Huber, Frank Evers, Christian Colmorgen Regie und Buch Michael Hofmann Kamera Jutta...
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 Critical Essay by Cynthia Thomiszer
3,186 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Thomiszer considers Sagan's application of scientific discovery to explain the origin and significance of art in The Dragons of Eden. According to Thomiszer, "to confuse aesthetics with empiricism, as Sagan does, is to further confuse an already clouded issue."
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Critical Essay by R. J. Herrnstein
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Like many non-specialist popularizers of psychology, Professor Sagan [in The Dragons of Eden] overestimates our physiological knowledge and underestimates our psychological knowledge. I'll get back to this point later. First, I must acknowledge that Professor Sagan has taken the first hard step in learning psychology. The first step in studying psychology is to convince yourself that there is something to study, above and beyond common sense and common knowledge. Professor Sagan likes the theory of t... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Richard Restak
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A better understanding of the nature and evolution of human intelligence just possibly might help us to deal intelligently with our unknown and perilous future," writes Dr. Carl Sagan…. To help achieve this understanding Sagan begins ["The Dragons of Eden"] by looking at the evolution of intelligence in lower animals. Since larger brains can store more information, a critical point in evolutionary development occurred with the emergence of an organism that "for the first t...
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