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Title: Clever explaination of human life cycle.
Review: Niven shows his wry insight into the real world and human life in this early novel set in the known universe future history.A young man loses all memory of a few weeks of his life and is determined to find out the cause. He is astonished to find an explaination that harks back to the Garden of Eden and forward to an intergallactic war."If a human being is just an egg's way of making another egg" begs a question about the need for grandparents. Niven answers the question and a number of others including: why do old people get arthritis and why do their teeth fall out?This novel is required reading for "Ringworld Engineers".
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