Minds of Their Own: Thinking and Awareness in Animals

Reprint of a 1997 work published in Australia by Allen & Unwin. The author is an ethologist affiliated with the U. of New England in Australia and has written extensively on animal behavior and development. Here she bridges the disciplines of neuroscience and behavior in discussion of consciousness in animals, looking at behavior characteristics of a variety of animals, and the evolution of the brain and of consciousness. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.