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, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday...It's a delight." THE N...(展开全部)

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, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday...It's a delight." THE N...(展开全部)

“如果不清楚萨根的背景，你很难想到这本书出自一位行星天文学家之手。本书并非着意于传达生物学知识，而是在现有发现的基础上对智力的过去与未来进行推测，并探讨梦境、睡眠、多种文明共有的龙的传说、模糊而强烈的本能恐惧等事物的起源。也许，我们早餐吃煎蛋的习惯也与进化史上千万年前的事件有着某种关联。”——www.oursci.org

“如果不清楚萨根的背景，你很难想到这本书出自一位行星天文学家之手。本书并非着意于传达生物学知识，而是在现有发现的基础上对智力的过去与未来进行推测，并探讨梦境、睡眠、多种文明共有的龙的传说、模糊而强烈的本能恐惧等事物的起源。也许，我们早餐吃煎蛋的习惯也与进化史上千万年前的事件有着某种关联。”——www.oursci.org

This book provides a unique discussion of human evolution from a philosophical viewpoint, looking at the facts and interpretations since Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man. Michael Ruse explores such topics as the nature of scientific theories, the relationships between culture and biology, the problem of progress and the extent to which evolutionary issues pose problems for r...(展开全部)

Primeval women s swollen breasts indicated lactation, pregnancy and fertility to excited males. In the author s scenario, women lost their estrus and developed permanently enlarged breasts, "an anatomy of deception," to tame and domesticate exploitative males whose interests were narrowly focused only on mating. Female orgasm, though not necessary for reproduction, may have con...(展开全部)

Human domination of our earth is now so complete that it is easy to forget how recently our role in the history of our planet began: the earliest apes evolved around 20 million years ago, yet Homo Sapiens has existed for a mere 160,000 years. In the intervening period, dozens of species of early ape and human have lived and died out, leaving behind the fossilized remains that h...(展开全部)