Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind CastlePoint_May9 leading many readers to believe

leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents

In Spectacular

staying flexible

that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan

Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind CastlePoint_May9 leading many readers to believe"Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own minds essential link to the animal world." The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A great book . . . [Godfrey Smith is] brilliant at describing just what he sees, the patterns of behaviour of the animals he observes." Nigel Warburton, Five Books The scuba diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness Dip