Theo Todman's Book Collection (Book-Paper Abstracts)

Back Cover Blurb

1. An immensely readable account of one of the greatest remaining biological mysteries: the possibility of conscious experiences in non-human animals. What goes on inside the minds of other animals? Do they have thoughts and feelings like our own? Marian Dawkins describes a wealth of recent findings in animal behaviour and argues that the idea of consciousness in other species has now progressed from a vague possibility to a plausible, scientifically respectable view.
2. ‘The book is written to appeal to a wide readership, and in this it succeeds admirably’.
   → Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
3. ‘... provides an impressive compendium of brilliantly lucid descriptions of reliable observations of the intricacy of animal behaviour.’
   → Times Higher
4. ‘... anyone wanting a thoughtful guide to thinking about the possibility of consciousness in monkeys, bees ... could do no better than to read Dawkins’s book.’
   → Nature
5. Marian Stamp Dawkins lectures in Animal Behaviour in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. Professor Dawkins is a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.