Somewhere steaming jungles Carboniferous Period emerged organism first — Carl Sagan, Dragons Eden: Speculations Evolution Human Intelligence

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Somewhere in the steaming jungles of the Carboniferous Period there emerged an organism that for the first time in the history of the world had more information in its brains than in its genes. It was an early reptile which, were we to come upon it in these sophisticated times, we would probably not describe as exceptionally intelligent… Much of the history of life since the Carboniferous Period can be described as the gradual (and certainly incomplete) dominance of brains over genes.

Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

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