By the authors of "Cosmos", this is an exploration of who we are, and how we were shaped by life's adventure on earth, by a mysterious past that we are only just beinning to piece together. It takes the reader back to the birth of the sun and its planets, and the first stirrings of life; to the origins of traits central to our current predicament; sex and violence, love and altruism, hierarchy, consciousness, language, technology and morality.
- ISBN10 0394534816
- ISBN13 9780394534817
- Publish Date 15 September 1992
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 28 October 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Random House (NY)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 505
- Language English