The zoologist's guide to the galaxy what animals on earth reveal about aliens--and ourselves
"From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Form vs function : what is common across worlds?
- What are animals and what are aliens?
- Movement : scuttling and gliding across space
- Communication channels
- Intelligence (whatever that is)
- Sociality : cooperation, competition and teatime
- Information : a very ancient commodity
- Language : the unique skill
- Artificial intelligence : a universe full of bots?
- Humanity, as we know it
- Epilogue.
