Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (book)

''Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are'' is a 1992 book by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.Copyright information page
''Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors''. The authors give a summary account of the evolutionary history of life on Earth, with particular focus upon certain traits central to human nature and the discussion of where their precursors began to develop in other species. In the final chapters, they examine primates in detail, comparing the details between anatomically modern humans and the wikt:extant, extant species most closely related to them.

The book was the basis for an episode of the same name in the 2020 series ''Cosmos: Possible Worlds'', written by Druyan and Brannon Braga.

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1992 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
Random House books
Ballantine Books books
English-language books
Works by Carl Sagan