Peter Godfrey Smith 2 Books Collection Set Metazoa Animal Minds, Other Minds
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Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness [Hardback]
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 flower-like worms, whose rooted bodies and intricate geometry are more reminiscent of plant life than anything recognisably animal. Yet these creatures are our cousins. As fellow members of the animal kingdom – the Metazoa – they can teach us about the evolutionary origins of not only our bodies, but also our minds.....
OTHER MINDS: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Tracking the mind’s fitful development from unruly clumps of seaborne cells to the first evolved nervous systems in ancient relatives of jellyfish, he explores the incredible evolutionary journey of the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous molluscs who would later abandon their shells to rise above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so – a journey completely independent from the route that mammals and birds would later take.
Titles in this Set
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness [Hardback]
OTHER MINDS: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life