David Spooner

Insect-Populated Mind

How Insects Have Influenced the Evolution of Consciousness

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Insect-Populated Mind, author David Spooner proposes a close connection between aspects of insect evolution and the human intellect.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780761831754
• ISBN-10: 0761831754
• Artikelnr.: 21988218

Autorenporträt

David Spooner

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Part I: Ape, Insect, and Human; The Cosmic Cultural Faculty in
Relation to the Meme Machine; Shakespeare and the Nature of Verbal and
Musical Language; Schopenhauer, Music and the The Order of Things; From
Apuleius to A.R. Wallace: Evolutionary Theo
Chapter 3 Part II: From the Big Bang to Life on Earth; Insects and the
Mind: The Poetry of Damaso Alonso; A.R. Wallace's Swallowtails: Mimicry and
Evolution; Of Cells and Mutation; Ancient and Medieval Cosmology; The
Spread of the Fourfold Constant into Ninet
Chapter 4 Appendix
Chapter 5 Bibliography
Chapter 6 Index