Australian Red-necked Cockatoo feeding in a field in the Northern Territory
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Living on Earth
Peter Godfrey-Smith (William Collins (UK, on sale now), Farrar, Strauss & Giroux (US, September 3rd))
In 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith released an unexpected bestseller. Other heartss: Octopuses and the evolution of intelligent lifeThe book was widely praised for its insights into the consciousness of relatively alien life forms, but it was Godfrey-Smith’s regular encounters with cephalopods on the beaches of his Sydney home that gave it colour and character – which is why he is often referred to as the “philosopher of scuba diving”.
A 2020 follow-up revealed that metazoans…
