Metazoa by Peter Godfrey-Smith 2020
Organisms with a nervous system have consciousness. Hmmm. Peter Godfrey-Smith, he of octopus fame,...
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Category: ETHOLOGY BOOKS
Animal languages by Eva Meijer 2016
Dr Doolittle lives again. This is a truly wide-ranging canter through the ways in which many types...
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Mama’s last hug by Frans de Waal, 2019
Human emotions are just an extension of animal emotions. Another cracking read from one of the...
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A natural history of human thinking by Michael Thomasello 2014
An explicitly social account of the evolution of human thinking. This is a succinct but dense...
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Animal Minds by Donald R Griffin 2001
Do non-human animals have consciousness? Griffin’s book explores the persistently vexed question...
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Other minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith 2016
The book’s subtitle is The octopus and the evolution of intelligent life. Half the book is...
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