Tag: # Carl Sagan

  Terrence Deacon, “The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and Brain“, 1997 was the topic of an earlier blog.   Carl Sagan, “Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, 1979 was nonfiction science writing on neurolinguistics  as well.  Pierre Paul Broca was a French neurologist that discovered that “aphasia” (language absence) is located … Continue reading Carl Sagan, "Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science", 1979.

Carl Sagan, “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage”, 1980 was nonfiction science during the Cold War era.  More than 5 million copies of this book were sold.  As a writer of science-fiction Carl Sagan later wrote “Contact”, in 1985, which was about close encounter  .  Continue reading Carl Sagan, “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage”, 1980.