Darwin's Pharmacy : Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere

Darwin's Pharmacy : Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere /

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 plan...

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Main Author: Doyle, Richard, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, ©2011.
Series:In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)
Subjects:
Biology > Philosophy.
Gaia hypothesis.
Biosphere.
Hallucinogenic plants > Psychic aspects.
Hallucinogenic drugs > Psychological aspects.
Consciousness.
Sexual selection in animals.
Rhetoric > Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Hallucinogenic drugs.
Biological Phenomena
Philosophy
Hallucinogens
Consciousness
Mating Preference, Animal
philosophy.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Genetics & Genomics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
NATURE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
Hallucinogenic drugs
Biology > Philosophy
Biosphere
Gaia hypothesis
Hallucinogenic drugs > Psychological aspects
Rhetoric > Philosophy
Sexual selection in animals
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Table of 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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