Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural WorldThe eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey Smiths three part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020. Peter Godfrey Smith, the scuba diving philosopher, examined the evolution of sentience in Other Minds. In Metazoa he asked how that consciousness shaped and was shaped by animal bodies. Now, in Living on Earth, he takes that line of