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  • The Edge of Sentience

    Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI

    by Jonathan Birch ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Edge of Sentience

    Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI

    by Jonathan Birch ...
    Narrated by Graham Mack ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 44 min

    Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects, or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain, grown from human stem cells? And what about AI?These are questions about ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Invertebrate Sentience

    The Evidence and Its Implications

    Edited by Eva Read, Jonathan Birch ...
    As far back as Jeremy Bentham, philosophers have proposed sentience, especially pain, as the line that determines which animals deserve moral consideration. In recent decades, such thinking has led to a global trend of welfare legislation recognising animals as sentient beings. In the United Kingdom, cephalopod molluscs (octopods, cuttlefish, and squid) and decapod crustaceans (crabs, lobsters, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment

    Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson

    by Jonathan C. P. Birch ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. Using an innovative method, the study illuminates the intellectual history of the age through interpretations of Jesus between c.1650 and c.1826. The book demonstrates the persistence of theology in modern philosophy and the projects of social reform and amelioration associated with the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • The Human Advantage

    A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable

    by Suzana Herculano-Houzel ...
    Why our human brains are awesome, and how we left our cousins, the great apes, behind: a tale of neurons and calories, and cooking.Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Mind

    Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 2 - Best of Edge Series
    "Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." —Chicago Sun-Times on This WillChange EverythingMarkingthe debut of a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial,editor John Brockman delivers a cutting-edge master class covering everythingyou need to know about ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Host Manipulation by Parasites

    Edited by David P. Hughes, Jacques Brodeur, Frédéric Thomas ...
    Parasites that manipulate the behaviour of their hosts represent striking examples of adaptation by natural selection. This field of study is now moving beyond its descriptive phase and into more exciting areas where the processes and patterns of such dramatic adaptations can be better understood. This innovative text provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and challenging review of host ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Human

    The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique

    by Michael S. Gazzaniga ...
    "[A] shimmering new book . . . This is the place to look to learn about our best scientific understanding of what it means to be human." —Steven Pinker, New York Times bestselling author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works"A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara (and one of the inventors of the field), takes us on a lively tour through the latest ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fox, the Shrew, and You

    How Brains Evolved

    by Rogier B. Mars ...
    A leading neuroscientist describes the long evolutionary process that led to the human brainOur human brain is both unique and similar to that of other species. The only way we can trace its evolution is by comparing it to the brains of animals alive today. In this book, leading neuroscientist Rogier Mars offers an engaging account of the evolution of the brain by exploring the brains and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Why We Believe

    Evolution and the Human Way of Being

    by Agustin Fuentes ...
    Series series Foundational Questions in Science
    An "impressive" wide-ranging argument by a renowned anthropologist that the capacity to believe is what makes us human (Justin Barret, American Scientist ).Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ancient Origins of Consciousness

    How the Brain Created Experience

    by Todd E. Feinberg, Jon M. Mallatt ...
    How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious.How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which animals can be said to be sentient? In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt draw on recent scientific ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Carnivoran Evolution

    New Views on Phylogeny, Form and Function

    Edited by Anjali Goswami, Anthony Friscia ...
    Series Book 1 - Cambridge Studies in Morphology and Molecules: New Paradigms in Evolutionary Bio
    Members of the mammalian clade Carnivora have invaded nearly every continent and ocean, evolving into bamboo-eating pandas, clam-eating walruses and of course, flesh-eating sabre-toothed cats. With this ecological, morphological and taxonomic diversity and a fossil record spanning over sixty million years, Carnivora has proven to be a model clade for addressing questions of broad evolutionary ... Read more

    $47.99 USD