CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

1. SHARK BAY

Driving * This Book

TRANSFORMATION

2. EARTH ENLIVENED

Time and Space * Origins * Cycles and Burial * A Circus of Forms * Gaia * Goals

3. THE FOREST

The Whole Huge Hill in the Small Pool’s Stomach * The Bark-Palaces We Call Plants * Forms of Action * Land and Sea * Another Stroll * Wings

4. ORPHEUS

Cadences * Avian Life, Communication * Display and Evaluation * Song * Bowers * Orpheus in the Undergrowth

WHO WE ARE

5. HUMAN BEING

Another Forest * Culture * Communication Again * Construction, Convention, Imagination * Writing and Time * Why Us?

6. CONSCIOUSNESS

Experience and Animal Life * Human Minds * Hyperscan * Brothers

LIVING ON EARTH

7. OTHER LIVES

Ethical Decisions * Food and Farming * Animals in Experiments

8. WILD NATURE

Nature and the Natural * Habitat Protection and Climate Change * Choices * Instead of Us

9. SEAMOUNT

Manta * Looking Back * Lives and Minds * Glass Tunnel to Open Air * End and Beginning

Footnotes

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

A Note About the Author

About the Book

About the Author

Also by Peter Godfrey-Smith

About the Publisher