| 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 | |
| List of Illustrations | ix | |
| 1. | Introduction | 1 |
| 2. | Form vs Function: What Is Common Across Worlds? | 17 |
| 3. | What are Animals and What are Aliens? | 48 |
| 4. | Movement — Scuttling and Gliding Across Space | 70 |
| 5. | Communication Channels | 104 |
| 6. | Intelligence (Whatever That Is) | 132 |
| 7. | Sociality — Cooperation, Competition, and Teatime | 168 |
| 8. | Information — a Very Ancient Commodity | 194 |
| 9. | Language — The Unique Skill | 224 |
| 10. | Artificial Intelligence — A Universe Full of Bots? | 257 |
| 11. | Humanity, As We Know It | 290 |
| 12. | Epilogue | 319 |
| Acknowledgments | 325 | |
| Further Reading | 329 | |
| Index | 345 | |
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