Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere

By Richard M. Doyle

Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Science & Math

In Darwin's Pharmacy (2011), Penn State professor Richard M. Doyle examines psychedelic plants and experience through the lenses of evolution, rhetoric and ecology, drawing on Darwin's studies of flowers and their pollinators. Doyle proposes that psychedelics may have worked as signals in sexual selection, much as flowers do, shaping human language, creativity and consciousness. He then asks what such experiences of interconnection might teach a species facing a global ecological crisis.

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