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Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan — WisdomDeck honest review

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Broca's Brain

by Carl Sagan

Essays on science and pseudoscience, Velikovsky, Einstein, the search for life, from 1979. Early Sagan skepticism.

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Romance of science.
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