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Shadows of forgotten ancestors : a search for who you are

Cosmos, the widely acclaimed book and television series by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, was about where we are in the vastness of space and time. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is an exploration of who we are. How were we shaped by life's adventure on this planet, by a mysterious past that we are only just beginning to piece together? "We humans are like a newborn baby left on a doorstep," they write, "with no note explaining who it is, where it came from, what hereditary cargo of attributes and disabilities it might be carrying, or who its antecedents might be." This book is one version of the orphan's file. Sagan and Druyan take us back to the birth of the Sun and its planets and the first stirrings of life; to the origins of traits central to our current predicament: sex and violence, love and altruism, hierarchy, consciousness, language, technology, and morality.

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  • "Cosmos, the widely acclaimed book and television series by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, was about where we are in the vastness of space and time. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is an exploration of who we are. How were we shaped by life's adventure on this planet, by a mysterious past that we are only just beginning to piece together? "We humans are like a newborn baby left on a doorstep," they write, "with no note explaining who it is, where it came from, what hereditary cargo of attributes and disabilities it might be carrying, or who its antecedents might be." This book is one version of the orphan's file. Sagan and Druyan take us back to the birth of the Sun and its planets and the first stirrings of life; to the origins of traits central to our current predicament: sex and violence, love and altruism, hierarchy, consciousness, language, technology, and morality."@en
  • ""Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of theorigins of life on earth, describes its variety and charaacter, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and teh complex traces ofhumankind's evolutionary past...It is an amazing story masterfully told." FINANCIAL TIMES (LONDON) World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a ROOTS for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits--self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics--are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals. Astonishing in its scope, brilliant in its insights, and an absolutely compelling read, SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS is a triumph of popular science. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a ROOTS for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits--self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics--are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals. Astonishing in its scope, brilliant in its insights, and an absolutely compelling read, SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS is a triumph of popular science."

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  • "Populárně-naučné publikace"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Shadows of forgotten ancestors : a search for who you are"@en
  • "Shadows of forgotten ancestors : a search for who we are"@en
  • "Shadows of forgotten ancestors : a search for who we are"
  • "Stíny zapomenutých předků"
  • "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors / M"@en
  • "Sombras de antepasados olvidados : las respuestas de la ciencia a quiénes somos, de dónde venimos y cuál puede ser nuestro destino"
  • "Sombras de antepasados olvidados : las respuestas de la ciencia a quiénes somos, de dónde venimos y cuál puede ser nuestro destino"@es
  • "Shadows of forgotten ancestors a search for who we are"@en
  • "ʻIḳvot min he-ʻavar"
  • "はるかな記憶 : 人間に刻まれた進化の步み"
  • "Irŏbŏrin chosang ŭi kŭrimja : K'al Seigŏn kwa hamkke ttŏnanŭn illyusa t'amhŏm"
  • "Cienie zapomnianych przodków : w poszukiwaniu naszej tożsamości"@pl
  • "Sombras de antepasados olvidados"
  • "Sombras de antepasados olvidados"@es
  • "잃어버린조상의그림자 : 칼세이건과함께떠나는인류사탐험"
  • "Shadows of forgotten ancestors : a search for who we were"@en
  • "Harukana kioku : ningen ni kizamareta shinka no ayumi"
  • "Schöpfung auf Raten : neue Erkenntnisse zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen"
  • "Shadows of forgotten ancestors"@en
  • "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors"@en

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