Living on Earth forests, corals, consciousness, and the making of the world
"If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years - most of our planet's history and over a quarter of the a...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Godfrey-Smith, Peter, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Living on Earth : |b forests, corals, consciousness, and the making of the world / |c Peter Godfrey-Smith. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c 2024. | |
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| 300 | |a x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 22 cm | ||
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| 520 | |a "If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years - most of our planet's history and over a quarter of the age of the universe (as far as we can tell). What have these organisms - bacteria, animals, plants, and the rest - done in all this time? In Living on Earth, the philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith proposes a new way of understanding how the actions of living beings have shaped our planet. Where his acclaimed books Other Minds and Metazoa explored the riddle of how conscious minds came to exist on Earth, Living on Earth turns to what happens when we look at the mind from another side - when we come to see organisms as active causes, not merely as results of the evolutionary process. The planet we inhabit is significantly the work of other living beings, who shaped the environments that we ourselves later transformed. To that end, Godfrey-Smith takes us on a grand tour of the history of life on earth. He visits Rwandan gorillas and Australian bowerbirds, returns to coral reefs and octopus dens, considers the impact of language and writing, and weighs the responsibilities our unique powers bring with them, as they relate to factory farming, habitat preservation, climate change, and the use of animals in experiments. Ranging from the seas to the forests, and from animate matter's first appearance to its future extinction, Godfrey-Smith offers a novel picture of the course of life on Earth and how we might meet the challenges of our time, the Anthropocene." -- |c Publisher's description. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-304) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Shark Bay -- Driving -- This book -- Transformation. Earth enlivened. Time and Space -- Origins -- Cycles and Burial -- A Circus of Forms -- Gaia -- Goals -- The forest. The Whole Huge Hill in the Small Pool's Stomach -- The Bark-Palaces We Call Plants -- Forms of Action -- Land and Sea -- Another Stroll -- Wings -- Orpheus. Cadences -- Avian Life, Communication -- Display and Evaluation -- Song -- Bowers -- Orpheus in the Undergrowth -- Who we are. Human being. Another Forest -- Culture -- Communication Again -- Construction, Convention, Imagination -- Writing and Time -- Why Us?-- Consciousness. Experience and Animal Life -- Human Minds -- Hyperscan -- Brothers -- Living on Earth. Other lives. Ethical Decisions -- Food and Farming -- Animals in Experiments -- Wild nature. Nature and the Natural -- Habitat Protection and Climate Change -- Choices -- Instead of Us -- Seamount. Manta -- Looking Back -- Lives and Minds -- Glass Tunnel to Open Air -- End and Beginning. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Ecology |x Philosophy |v Popular works. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Life |x Origin |v Popular works. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Natural history. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Godfrey-Smith, Peter. |t Living on Earth. |b First edition. |d New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024 |z 9780374720193 |w (OCoLC)1454588297 |
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