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Author Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.

Title Shadows of forgotten ancestors : a search for who we are / Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan.

Imprint New York : Ballantine Books, 1993, ©1992.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Reitz  304.5 Sa18s 1993    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st Ballantine books ed.
Description xvi, 505 pages ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents On earth as it is in heaven -- Snowflakes fallen on the hearth -- What makest thou -- A gospel of dirt -- Life is just a three-letter word -- Us and them -- When fire was new -- Sex and death -- What thin partitions ... -- The next-to-last remedy -- Dominance and submission -- The rape of Caenis -- The ocean of becoming -- Gangland -- Mortifying reflections -- Lives of the apes -- Admonishing the conqueror -- The Archimedes of the Macaques -- What is human -- The animal within -- Shadows of forgotten ancestors.
Summary Explores peoples origins and how they were shaped by life's adventure on this planet.
Subject Life -- Origin.
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology) (OCoLC)fst00917302
Life -- Origin. (OCoLC)fst00998169
Added Author Druyan, Ann, 1949-
ISBN 0345384725 (pbk.)
9780345384720 (pbk.)

 
    
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