Book Review: Metazoa

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My review of Peter Godfrey-Smith's book, Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness has just been published in the Newtown Review of Books.
(Image: Pleine Mer, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) (Wikimedia Commons))


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