Australia’s red-winged parrot feeding in fields in the Northern Territory
Roland Seitre/naturepl.com
Dwelling On Earth
Peter Godfrey-Smith (William Collins (UK, out now); Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (US, 3 September))
IN 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith landed an surprising bestseller with Different Thoughtss: The octopus and the evolution of clever life. It was extensively acclaimed for its perception into the consciousness of a comparatively alien life type, lent color and character by Godfrey-Smith’s common encounters with cephalopods off the seashores of his Sydney house – which explains why he’s usually billed because the “scuba-diving philosopher”.
Within the 2020 follow-up, Metazoa:…
