Jun 5, 2023 04:30 PM
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/carl-sag...ile-brain/
KEY POINTS: Science communicator and astrophysicist Carl Sagan was, and to this day is, generally regarded as an honest and skeptical broker of scientific information. However, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Dragons of Eden, Sagan endorsed a disputed theory of human brain evolution, suggesting that humans have a "reptilian" brain deep within our minds. The idea has since been roundly disproved, but the myth that humans have a reptile brain persists almost certainly thanks to Sagan's problematic popularizing... (MORE - details)
KEY POINTS: Science communicator and astrophysicist Carl Sagan was, and to this day is, generally regarded as an honest and skeptical broker of scientific information. However, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Dragons of Eden, Sagan endorsed a disputed theory of human brain evolution, suggesting that humans have a "reptilian" brain deep within our minds. The idea has since been roundly disproved, but the myth that humans have a reptile brain persists almost certainly thanks to Sagan's problematic popularizing... (MORE - details)