Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Other Minds won BBC R4 Book of the Week. What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Year
- 2017
- ISBN-13
- 9780008226282
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Octopus intelligenceEvolution of consciousnessAnimal cognition
Awards
- Royal Society Science Book PrizeShortlisted(2017)
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