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Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

by Peter Godfrey-Smith

The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose rooted bodies, intricate geometry, and flower-like appendages are more reminiscent of plant

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9780374207946