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Last week 48 church members arrived at their newly bought Eden-and found, as often happens with Edens, that the place was a mess. The town had started as a stagecoach stop, reached a peak population of 300 in 1939 when logging companies were cutting near by, but slumped to 100 by the time a wealthy Los Angeles widow named Elizabeth Lapple bought the place in 1973. She wanted it as a commune for her hippie children and their hangers-on. As the former residents moved out, marijuana began to sprout in the yards and rock music echoed through...
...review of Carl Sagan's book The Dragons of Eden [May 23], Peter Stoler says, "Sagan wonders, why do infants, who presumably have little or no experience to sort out, seem to dream as much as their elders...
...DRAGONS OF EDEN by CARL SAGAN 263 pages. Random House...
...Carl Sagan. His jargon-free book The Cosmic Connection (1973) involved thousands of readers in the search for life beyond earth. Last year, during the Mars probe, he became a TV celebrity with plausible descriptions of the creatures that might be populating outer space. The Dragons of Eden should involve thousands more in the exploration of inner space - the human brain...
...Dragons of Eden begins with a summary of how and when intelligence developed in various terrestrial species. In detail, Sagan describes the process of natural selection working toward the emergence of the creature Shakespeare called "the paragon of animals." Sagan also explains differences in the structure of the paragon's brain and those of other animals. He offers some idiosyncratic thoughts on why man's neurological legacy makes him behave the way he does...