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"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 plants can be usefully modeled as "eloquence adjuncts" that intensify a crucial component of sexual selection in humans: discourse. In doing so, they engage our awareness of the no©œsphere, defined by V.I. Vernadsky as the thinking stratum of the earth, the realm of consciousness feeding back onto the…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2011University of Washington Press · 358 pages · 9780295990941
BiologyConsciousnessBiosphereSexual selection in animalsPhilosophyRhetoricHallucinogenic drugsLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric