The Insect-Populated Mind - How Insects Have Influenced the Evolution of Consciousness

Informationen zum Autor By David Spooner Klappentext In The Insect-Populated Mind, author David Spooner proposes a close connection between aspects of insect evolution and the human intellect. Zusammenfassung In The Insect-Populated Mind! author David Spooner proposes a close connection between aspects of insect evolution and the human intellect. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: David Spooner, Spooner David
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2005
• EAN: 9780761831754
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-3175-4
• No. of pages: 186
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Insects (entomology), Human biology