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 ...
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Critical Essay by Peter Stoler
Like squids, scientists protect themselves with clouds of impenetrable ink. Not Carl Sagan. His jargon-free book The Cosmic Connection … involved thousands of rea...
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Critical Essay by Richard Restak
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,"...
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Critical Essay by R. J. Herrnstein
Like many non-specialist popularizers of psychology, Professor Sagan [in The Dragons of Eden] overestimates our physiological knowledge and underestimates our psycho...
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Critical Essay by John Updike
Versatile though he is, [Sagan] is simply not enough saturated in his subject [in "The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence"...
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Critical Essay by Stephen C. Reingold
In presenting [the theory of the triune brain in The Dragons of Eden], Sagan encourages the reader to examine human intelligence and behavior in terms of the elem...
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Critical Essay by Charles Weingartner
Subtitled "Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence," [The Dragons of Eden] is a superlative work: erudite, facile, fascinating, and emin...
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