The Inner Eye: Social Intelligence in Evolution

by Nicholas Humphrey

Book Overview

Where does consciousness come from? What is it? Where is it taking us?
In 1971 Nicholas Humphrey spent three months at Dian Fossey's gorilla research centre in Rwanda. It was there, among the mountain gorillas that he began to focus on the philosophical and scientific puzzle that has fascinated him ever since: the problem of how a human being or animal can know what it is like to be itself. The Inner Eye describes where these original speculations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192802445
• ISBN13: 9780192802446
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.7"