A review by boborbot
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan

4.0

It has the feel of an old but good NatGeo documentary. Plenty of the facts presented are by now falsified or suspect, enough for the reader to need to superimpose the material learned onto a more recent source, negating its goal as an educative object.
Instead, and in this the book excels, it is a piece of not science but of Natural Philosophy, in its literal sense. Pontifical and ponderous, giving a feeling of awe and humanity from the inhuman universe.