After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. One or two of the chapters were too difficult for me to understand as a non-scientist, but I was basically able to understand the book while only skimming the difficult chapters about DNA construction and such. It is much more scientifically rigorous and sophisticated than The Dragons of Eden, and deals not with the evolution of the tripartite brain, but on the evolution of consciousness itself. Because what Shadows is more than anything else is a snapshot of Ukrainian Hutsul life at some point in time, executed in an immersive way that makes you feel like you are actually there. Though being generally a child of Western European and American culture I acknowledge that it pays to keep at least part of our original heritage. Ingmar Bergman once claimed that the childhood gift of a film projector inspired him to make movies. It is pretty dense, but very informative and useful. It deserves to be studied by anyone working today in movies and looking for rich multilayered intuition. Druyan and Sagan write that we are like babies left in a basket on a doorstep, never knowing and always wondering what our ancestry is. His introduction to genetics is basic, but very readable for the non-scientist. When you think Sagan can't get any better, boom! Was this review helpful? I was more used to narrative-driven films. Plus the references to the Church and religion could not have helped. I can imagine how much ahead of time it was upon releasing. Was this review helpful? Read it and draw your own conclusions, but I was astounded by the parallels between human society and the behavior of the other primate species. old, nice, with strange seductive letters of a ordinary hand. With Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Spartak Bagashvili. 3:28. My first experience with Parajanov was with The Color of Pomegranates. He also explored evolutionary biology-stimulated by his wife, the biologist Ann Druyan. The colors were still pretty intense when I saw the film again in about 1979. I was interested in this book as I had a Paleontology course in college and did a paper on the evolution of the horse. And evolution is always on the march, does not stop with our species. It is magnificently written, which is the standard of Carl Sagan. The richness of its photography will take you to the Carpathian Mountains and leave you astonished. Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan are tremendous writers, and if they weren't scientists as well, they'd be ranked among the best we have. crumbs of myth, soul of old story, force of tradition, delicate shadow of time. Then, the tales of the behavior primate species bring out the similarities between humans and our primate cousins. From reading this book, I understand why and how I am here. Was this review helpful? The great difference between this book and some other science book is that Sagan uses his amazing writing skills to make it as though you're reading a story, a beautiful remarkable story that leads all the way up to you! ´Shadows´ is one of the best movies i´ve ever seen. This is set in a village in Western Ukraine, in the forested Carphatian Mountains, among the Hutsul ethnic group. I loved this book. Was this review helpful? It was a very loud track and became unpleasant and over-stressed with little interruption. 5 out of 9 found this helpful.

Seriously--this is a fantastic book. The feeling of magic in creating images in light upon the wall never left him; perhaps it revealed to him the perfect medium for living out dreams. It's based on a masterpiece novel of the same name written by Ukrainian author (late 19th-early 20th centuries) Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky. At the end it turns to a blood red fury and then there is nothing but the dead. The experience is almost like being strapped to a malfunctioning rollercoaster, as a relatively straightforward story - young man falls in love with neighbour; she dies; he mourns; remarries; still loves dead mate (Wuthering Heights anyone?) 3 out of 5 found this helpful. You don't even understand life on earth unless you know this stuff. A strange world revealing at every turn long forgotten meanings, sometimes reassuring, some other times nightmarish. Was this review helpful? I'm a huge fan and am sad at Carl's passing. Was this review helpful? 24 out of 34 found this helpful. After I read The Dragons of Eden, I learned that Carl Sagan explored more than cosmology. It is magnificently written, which is the standard of Carl Sagan. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors is set in Western Ukraine (Carpathian mountains) circa the 1860's. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors at Amazon.com. It covers a lot of territory and the history of the universe is necessarily cursory.

41 out of 46 found this helpful. One can wonder, in one hundred million years, what will our species evolve to, what will we look like? Indeed, some of the studies indicate that some of the other animals may have consciousness that surpasses in degree that that of the human animal. The first half of the film deals with that love and the second with Ivan's downfall after she dies in an accident.

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