| THE ZOOLOGIST'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens — and Ourselves Arik Kershenbaum New York: Penguin Press, March 2021 |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-9848-8196-0 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-9848-8196-5 | 356pp. | HC/BWI | $28.00 | |
| Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION | |||
| The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth | Elizabeth Tasker | Bloomsbury Sigma (2017) | 978-1472917720 |
| Intelligent Life in the Universe | I. S. Shklovskii & Carl Sagan | Holden-Day (1966) | ASIN: B0006BM4BG |
| The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence for Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design | Richard Dawkins | W. W. Norton (1986) | 978-0393022162 |
| Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life | Daniel C. Dennett | Simon & Schuster (1995) | 978-0684802909 |
| Are the Planets Inhabited? | Edward Walter Maunder | Palala Press (2016) | 978-1359680877 |
| The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth | Steven J. Dick (Editor) | Cambridge University Press (2016) | 978-1107109988 |
| Chapter 2. FORM VS. FUNCTION: WHAT IS COMMON ACROSS WORLDS? | |||
| Possible Worlds: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth | J. B. S. Haldane | Routledge (2001) | 978-0765807151 |
| The Black Cloud | Fred Hoyle & Geoffrey Hoyle | Valancourt Books (2015) | 978-1941147429 |
| Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements | Matt Wilkinson | Basic Books (2016) | 978-0465065721 |
| Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe | Simon Conway Morris | Cambridge University Press (2004) | 978-0521603256 |
| Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History | Stephen J. Gould | W. W. Norton (1989) | 978-0393027051 |
| When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time | Michael J. Benton | Thames & Hudson (2003) | 978-0500051160 |
| Chapter 3. WHAT ARE ANIMALS AND WHAT ARE ALIENS? | |||
| Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?: How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order | Susannah Gibson | Oxford University Press (2015) | 978-0198705130 |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville | Macmillan (2016) | 978-1509826643 |
| The Garden of Ediacara: Discovering the First Complex Life | Mark A. S. McMenamin | Columbia University Press (1998) | 978-0231105583 |
| Life: An Unauthorized Biography | Richard Fortey | HarperCollins (1998) | 978-0006384205 |
| The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life To the Origin of Language | John Maynard Smith & Eörs Szathmáry | Oxford University Press (1999) | 978-0198504931 |
| Chapter 4. MOVEMENT — SCUTTLING AND GLIDING ACROSS SPACE | |||
| Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in he Universe | Peter D. Ward & Donald Brownlee | Copernicus (2033) | 978-0387987019 |
| The Cosmic Zoo: Complex Life on Many Worlds | Dirk Schulze-Makuch & William Bains | Springer (2017) | 978-3319620442 |
| The Formation of Vegetable Mold, Through the Action of Worms,: With Observations on their Habits | Charles Darwin | D. Appleton & Co. (1896) | ASIN: B00CNVFEL4 |
| Chapter 5. COMMUNICATION CHANNELS | |||
| The Evolution of Language | W. Tecumseh Fitch | Cambridge University Press (2010) | 978-0521677363 |
| Chapter 6. INTELLIGENCE (WHATEVER THAT IS) | |||
| Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? | Franz De Waal | W. W. Norton (2016) | 978-0393246186 |
| What It's Like To Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience | Gregory Berns | Basic Books (2017) | 978-0465096244 |
| Are Dolphins Really Smart?: The Mammal Behind the Myth | Justin Gregg | Oxford University Press (2015) | 978-0199681563 |
| Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness | Daniel C. Dennett | Basic Books (1996) | 978-0465073504 |
| Mortal Questions | Thomas Nagel | Cambridge University Press (2012) | 978-1107604711 |
| The Mismeasure of Man | Stephen J. Gould | W. W. Norton (1996) | 978-0393314250 |
| Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe | Jane Goodall | Mariner Books (2010) | 978-0547336954 |
| The Genius of Birds | Jennifer Ackerman | Penguin Books (2017) | 978-0547336954 |
| Contact: A Novel | Carl Sagan | Gallery Books (2019) | 978-1501197987 |
| The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots | Irene Pepperberg | Harvard University Press (2002) | 978-0674008069 |
| Calculating God | Robert J. Sawyer | TOR Books (2009) | 978-0765322890 |
| Chapter 7. SOCIALITY — COOPERATION, COMPETITION AND TEATIME | |||
| The Private Life of the Rabbit | Ron M. Lockley | Macmillan (1974) | 978-0025739000 |
| Evolution and the Theory of Games | John Maynard Smith | Cambridge University Press (1982) | 978-0521288842 |
| Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind | Dorothy L. Cheney & Robert M. Seyfarth | University of Chicago Press (2008) | 978-0226102443 |
| Chapter 8. INFORMATION — A VERY ANCIENT COMMODITY | |||
| The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language | Steven Pinker | Harper Perennial (2007) | 978-0061336461 |
| Chapter 9. LANGUAGE — THE UNIQUE SKILL | |||
| The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinct | Vyvyan Evans | Cambridge University Press (2014) | 978-1107619753 |
| The Diversity of Life | E. O. Wilson | Belknap Press (2010) | 978-0674058170 |
| Xenolinguistics 1: Toward a Science of Extraterrestrial Language | Douglas Vakoch | Feral House (2033) | 978-1234567890 |
| Chapter 10. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE — A UNIVERSE FULL OF BOTS | |||
| Crabs on the Island 2 | Anatoly Dneprov | Random House (1970) | 978-1234567890 |
| Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom | Sean B. Carroll | W. W. Norton (2006) | 978-0393327793 |
| At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity | Stuart Kaufman | Oxford University Press (1996) | 978-0195111309 |
| Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation | Steven Levy | Pantheon (1992) | 978-0679407744 |
| The Meme Machine | Susan Blackmore | Oxford University Press (2000) | 978-0192862129 |
| Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies | Nick Bostrom | Oxford University Press (2017) | 978-0198739838 |
| The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory | David J. Chalmers | Oxford University Press (1997) | 978-0195117899 |
| Consciousness Explained | Daniel C. Dennett | Back Bay Books (1992) | 978-0316180665 |
| Chapter 11. HUMANITY, AS WE KNOW IT | |||
| Dawn of the Dog: The Genesis of a Natural Species | Janice Koler-Matznick | Janice Koler-Matznick (2016) | 978-0997490206 |
| Out of the Silent Planet | C. S. Lewis | Scribner (2003) | 978-0743234900 |
| Life Concepts from Aristotle To Darwin: On Vegetable Souls | Lucas John Mix | Palgrave Macmillan (2018) | 978-3319960463 |
| Wild Animals I Have Known | Ernest Thompson Seton | BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) (2009) | 978-1110814664 |
| The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature | Steven Pinker | Penguin Books (2003) | 978-0142003343 |
| Sociobiology: The New Synthesis | E. O. Wilson | Belknap Press (2000) | 978-0674002357 |
| Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth | Peter Turchin | Beresta Books (2015) | 978-0996139519 |
| The Major Transitions in Evolution | John Maynard Smith & Eörs Szathmáry | Oxford University Press (1998) | 978-0198502944 |
The author repeats some entries, since they apply to the topics of multiple chapters. I have omitted these duplicates. I have also omitted his citation for the essay "Religion and Rocketry" by C. S. Lewis, because in my view it leans too heavily on Christianity.
| Vital Dust: Life as a Cosmic Imperative | Christian de Duve | Basic Books (1995) | 978-0465090440 |
| Memory's Voice: Deciphering the Brain-Mind Code | Daniel L. Alkon, M.D. | HarperCollins (1992) | 978-0060183004 |
| Downward To the Earth | Robert Silverberg | Gollancz / Orion (2004) | 978-0575075238 |
| When HARLIE Was One | David Gerrold | Ballantine Books (1972) | 978-0345028853 |
| When HARLIE Was One (Release 2.0) | David Gerrold | Bantam Spectra (1988) | 978-0553264654 |
| Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence | Pamela McCorduck & Cli Cfe | A. K. Peters / CRC Press (2004) | 978-1568812052 |
| The Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth | Adam Frank | W. W. Norton & Company (2018) | 978-0393609011 |
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