The Dragons Of Eden Sparknotes

One of the most well known Astrophysicist and Astronomer of the late 20th century, was Carl Sagan, who had been born in Brooklyn, New York on November 9th, 1934. He grew up with his parents, Samuel Sagan, a Russian immigrant, and Rachel Gruber, who was a devout follower of Judaism, and sister, Carol. Carl had credited his mother’s sense of skepticism and his father’s sense of wonder for his widespread success in his study of the sciences. His credentials are quite extensive, as he has published and written more than 600 scientific articles and a few other science based books. One of which, “The Dragons of Eden” had won the Pulitzer Prize. He studied at the University of Chicago all the way up until he earned a Phd in the fields of Astronomy

Each one was represented each of the episodes on the original series, but while a T.V. show can show more animations, a book can provide more facts. In the first chapter, the information changed from explaining Earth’s formation to the Alexandrian Library and the many books that it could have contained, but what I enjoyed about most of the chapters, was how an interesting aspect of human history would be first introduced and then it would go on to describe a scientific concept and then add on other well known philosophers or scientists that studied the concept. Also, the entire book did not follow history or science in chronological order , but used the 2 subjects wherever and whenever it was necessary, so for example, in chapter 2, there was a story on the Heinike Crab, and apparently, because their shells would resemble samurai warriors, people would not kill them, and so today most of their shells do resemble faces. That story helped tie into the concept of “artificial selection”, where later he again used the concept and talked about how life might possibly evolve on other planets. As with the lack of chronological order, chapter 13 showed this best as the chapter flowed from World War 2 and atomic bombs, to the Soviet Union , then to a social experiment that had involved the use of monkeys , and lastly to the fall of the Alexandrian Library. (It was cool to realize that he made his first concept his last also). Every chapter was structured this way, as to try and hook the reader in with history or facts they might find interesting, and then explain the science behind it so that they already have something to apply it to. I would not really say that any one part was more important than the other, because that depends on what the reader finds entertaining, and also, each of the chapters was entirely unique and separate from the others. Although, my favorite chapter was chapter 5 “Blues for a Red