Darwin's Pharmacy Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere

Name: Darwin's Pharmacy Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere
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ISBN: 9780295990958

ISBN-10: 0295990953

ISBN-13: 9780295990958

Edition: 2011

Authors: Richard M. Doyle

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Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin's Pharmacy weaves the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs. Long suppressed as components of the human tool kit, psychedelic plants can be usefully modeled as "eloquence adjuncts" that intensify a crucial component of sexual selection in humans: discourse. In doing so, they engage our awareness of the noösphere, defined by V.I. Vernadsky as the thinking stratum of the earth, the realm of consciousness feeding back onto the biosphere. Sharing intelligence, connecting with the noösphere and integrating individuality into its…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 10/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.02" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English