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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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
