The Human Place in Nature: Evolution, Context and Choice

This book explores a new approach to understanding the evolution of mind and consciousness by examining the perceptual abilities of animals and the way they experience their world. It offers a science-based bottom-up approach to our own conscious worldview by seeing it through the eyes of others.

John Schooneveldt is a human ecologist with an academic background in psychology (BA 1972), linguistics (MA 1989) and applied ecology (PhD 2000). He worked as a senior government advisor for different governments, a green enterprise development consultant and farmer before returning to academia where he has been a visiting fellow and honorary lecturer at the Australian National University since 2010.