{"id":252429,"date":"2024-08-08T13:08:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T13:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/living-on-earth-review-ambitious-story-of-how-life-shapes-earth-ends-superb-trilogy\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:12:47","slug":"living-on-earth-review-ambitious-story-of-how-life-shapes-earth-ends-superb-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/living-on-earth-review-ambitious-story-of-how-life-shapes-earth-ends-superb-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Living on Earth review: Ambitious story of how life shapes Earth ends superb trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Red-winged parrot (Aprosmictus erythropterus) natural pied mutant colour morph, landing in farmland to feed, Northern Territory, Australia.\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06112549\/SEI_215072937.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2442803\" data-caption=\"Australia\u2019s red-winged parrot feeding in fields in\u00a0the Northern Territory\" data-credit=\"Roland Seitre\/naturepl.com\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Australia\u2019s red-winged parrot feeding in fields in\u00a0the Northern Territory<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Roland Seitre\/naturepl.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harpercollins.co.uk\/products\/living-on-earth-life-consciousness-and-the-making-of-the-natural-world-peter-godfrey-smith?variant=41175159078990\"><em><strong>Living On Earth<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/><strong>Peter Godfrey-Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/harpercollins.co.uk\/products\/living-on-earth-life-consciousness-and-the-making-of-the-natural-world-peter-godfrey-smith?variant=41175159078990\">(William Collins<\/a> (UK, out now); <a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374189938\/livingonearth\">Farrar, Straus and Giroux<\/a>, (US, 3 September))<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IN 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith landed an unexpected bestseller with <i>Other Mind<\/i>s: <i>The octopus and the evolution of intelligent life<\/i>. It was widely acclaimed for its insight into the consciousness of a relatively alien life form, lent colour and character by Godfrey-Smith\u2019s regular encounters with cephalopods off the beaches of his Sydney home \u2013 which explains why he is often billed as the \u201cscuba-diving philosopher\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2020 follow-up, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.williamcollinsbooks.co.uk\/products\/metazoa-animal-minds-and-the-birth-of-consciousness-peter-godfrey-smith-9780008321239\/\">Metazoa:\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26335030-300-ambitious-story-of-how-life-shapes-earth-ends-superb-trilogy\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Australia\u2019s red-winged parrot feeding in fields in\u00a0the Northern Territory Roland Seitre\/naturepl.com Living On EarthPeter Godfrey-Smith (William Collins (UK, out now); Farrar, Straus and Giroux,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}