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

by Richard M. Doyle

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Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin's Pharmacy shows they are by weaving 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.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0295990953

ISBN13:9780295990958

Release Date:May 2011

Publisher:University of Washington Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 7.0" x 8.9"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Biological Sciences Botany Evolution Genetics History & Philosophy Rhetoric Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology Words, Language & Grammar

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