Darwin's pharmacy : sex, plants, and the evolution of the noösphere / Richard Doyle.
- Doyle, Richard, 1963-
- Date:
- [2011], ©2011
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Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, [2011], ©2011.
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ix, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: glimpsing the peacock angel -- The flowers of perception: trip reports, stigmergy, and the Nth person plural -- Rhetorical Mycelium: psychedelics as eloquence adjuncts? -- Rhetorical adjuncts and the evolution of rhetoric: Darwin's impassioned speech -- LSDNA: creative problem solving, consciousness expansion, and the emergence of biotechnology -- Hyperbolic: divining Ayahuasca -- The transgenic involution -- From zero to one: metaprogramming noise, with special reference to plant intelligence -- Epilogue: in Darwin's dreams.
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- 9780295990941
- 0295990945
- 9780295990958
- 0295990953