Broca's Brain

Carl Sagan

ISBN 10: 0394501691 / ISBN 13: 9780394501697

Published by Random House, New York, New York, 1979

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Fine Book & Near Fine Jacket , light toning top of flaps, Signed First Edition & first print in protective cover.

Seller Inventory # 001739

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Broca's Brain
• Publisher: Random House, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394501691
• ISBN 13: 9780394501697
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Sagan's experiences upon discovering and holding the preserved brain of nineteenth-century surgeon, anthropologist, and neurologist Paul Broca lead to speculations on the primitive elements of the human mind and the ways the human brain today is coping with new discoveries about the cosmos

From the Inside Flap

writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries of the future that we want to see today.