Peter Godfrey-Smith's Philosophy of Biology (Princeton University Press), may not sound like the kind of book even science enthusiasts want to crack open for pleasure, but it's a great way to get up ...

Two animals more unalike than humans and octopuses are hard to imagine. Where we have a brain, spine and central nervous system, octopuses are “probably the closest we will come to meeting an ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Aimee Nezhukumatathil METAZOA Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind By Peter Godfrey-Smith One of ...

Ask Peter Godfrey-Smith to your cocktail party and chances are he’ll soon be distracted. Your average social gathering, the Australian philosopher tells us in “Living on Earth,” is “among other things ...

In 2016 scuba-diving philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith took the book world by storm with his unlikely best-seller “Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life,” which explored the ...

Short stories, including the original "Brokeback Mountain" and more. I was given this book by a friend about 20 years ago, and it reset my view of what writing can do. Buy it here. 'The Honorary ...

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