Why do we play the piano or walk without thinking, and why does a chick know how to peck? Butler argues that the most perfect knowledge is unconscious, that habits once learned sink below awareness, and that an embryo’s growth and an animal’s instincts are memories inherited from its ancestors, a challenge to Darwin’s natural selection.
A witty, contrarian book on evolution by the author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. Download the free EPUB.