{"product_id":"living-on-earth-forests-corals-consciousness-and-the-making-of-the-world-hardcover","title":"Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Godfrey-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eOther Minds\u003c\/i\u003e shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf 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 age of the universe (as far as we can tell). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What have these organisms--bacteria, animals, plants, and the rest--done in all this time? In \u003ci\u003eLiving on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, the philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith proposes a new way of understanding how the actions of living beings have shaped our planet. Where his acclaimed books \u003ci\u003eOther Minds\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMetazoa \u003c\/i\u003eexplored the riddle of how conscious minds came to exist on Earth, \u003ci\u003e Living on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e turns to what happens when we look at the mind from another side--when we come to see organisms as active causes, not merely as results of the evolutionary process. The planet we inhabit is significantly the work of other living beings, who shaped the environments that we ourselves later transformed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To that end, Godfrey-Smith takes us on a grand tour of the history of life on earth. He visits Rwandan gorillas and Australian bowerbirds, returns to coral reefs and octopus dens, considers the impact of language and writing, and weighs the responsibilities our unique powers bring with them, as they relate to factory farming, habitat preservation, climate change, and the use of animals in experiments. Ranging from the seas to the forests, and from animate matter's first appearance to its future extinction, Godfrey-Smith offers a novel picture of the course of life on Earth and how we might meet the challenges of our time, the Anthropocene.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Godfrey-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eOther Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been published in more than twenty languages, and \u003ci\u003eMetazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind.\u003c\/i\u003e His other books include \u003ci\u003eTheory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDarwinian Populations and Natural Selection\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2010 Lakatos Award. He is a professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978187014445,"sku":"9780374189938","price":28.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/aSVF4_aHBd9780374189938.webp?v=1775800909","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/living-on-earth-forests-corals-consciousness-and-the-making-of-the-world-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}