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The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.

If 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 yearsmost of our planet's history and over a quarter of the age of the universe (as far as we can tell).

What have these organismsbacteria, animals, plants, and the restdone in all this time? In Living on Earth, 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 Other Minds and Metazoa explored the riddle of how conscious minds came to exist on Earth, Living on Earth turns to what happens when we look at the mind from another sidewhen we come to see organisms as active causes, not merely as results

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The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.If the history of the... Read more

    Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    Publication Date: 9/3/2024
    ISBN13: 9780374189938, 978-0374189938
    ISBN10: 0374189935

    Non Fiction , Mathematics & Science , Education

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    The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.

    If 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 yearsmost of our planet's history and over a quarter of the age of the universe (as far as we can tell).

    What have these organismsbacteria, animals, plants, and the restdone in all this time? In Living on Earth, 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 Other Minds and Metazoa explored the riddle of how conscious minds came to exist on Earth, Living on Earth turns to what happens when we look at the mind from another sidewhen we come to see organisms as active causes, not merely as results

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