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This is a really engaging and enlightening book that shows we are not as unique as we like to think and that intelligence has many sources, including some rather 'unlikely' places. Godfrey-Smith takes the reader back to the beginning of the story describing the process of evolution of the octopus and when they separated from the same route as us (or us from the same route as them?) before going into how they developed intelligence. There is also a thought provoking discussion on how intelligence
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Shouldn't have gone for the audio version, but it was on sale ... I found this to be some very interesting tidbits scattered in amongst a lot of very dry philosophy.
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An interesting mixture of life sciences and philosophy, circling around octopuses!
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