Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue: Why on Earth . . . ?

Part 1: Our Place in Nature

Chapter 1: Deep Roots

Chapter 2: The Tree of Life

Chapter 3: Kingdoms Come

Chapter 4: Common Ancestry

Chapter 5: It’s A Livin’ Thing

Part 2: Survival and Behavior

Chapter 6: The Behavior of Organisms

Chapter 7: Beyond Animal Behavior

Chapter 8: The Earliest Survivors

Chapter 9: Survival Strategies and Tactics

Chapter 10: Rethinking Behavior

Part 3: Microbial Life

Chapter 11: In the Beginning

Chapter 12: Life Itself

Chapter 13: Survival Machines

Chapter 14: The Arrival of Organelles

Chapter 15: The Marriage of LUCA’s Children

Chapter 16: Breathing New Life into Old

Part 4: The Transition to Complexity

Chapter 17: Size Matters

Chapter 18: The Sexual Revolution

Chapter 19: Mitochondrial Eve, Jesse James, and the Origin of Sex

Chapter 20: Colonial Times

Chapter 21: The Selection Two-step

Chapter 22: Flagellating Through the Bottleneck

Part 5: . . . And Then Animals Invented Neurons

Chapter 23: What Is an Animal?

Chapter 24: A Humble Beginning

Chapter 25: Animals Take Shape

Chapter 26: The Magic of Neurons

Chapter 27: How Neurons Happened

Part 6: Metazoan Bread Crumbs in the Oceans

Chapter 28: Facing Forward

Chapter 29: Tissue Issues

Chapter 30: Oral or Anal?

Chapter 31: Deep-sea Deuterostomes Link Us to the Past

Chapter 32: A Tale of Two Chords

Part 7: The Vertebrates Arrive

Chapter 33: Bauplan Vertebrata

Chapter 34: The Life Aquatic

Chapter 35: On the Surface

Chapter 36: The Milk Trail

Part 8: Ladders and Trees in the Vertebrate Brain

Chapter 37: Neuro-Bauplan Vertebrata

Chapter 38: Ludwig’s Ladder

Chapter 39: The Triune Temptress

Chapter 40: Darwin’s Muddled Emotional Psychology

Chapter 41: How Basic Are Basic Emotions?

Part 9: The Beginning of Cognition

Chapter 42: Cogitation

Chapter 43: Finding Cognition in the Behaviorist Bailiwick

Chapter 44: The Evolution of Behavioral Flexibility

Part 10: Surviving (and Thriving) by Thinking

Chapter 45: Deliberation

Chapter 46: The Engine of Deliberative Cognition

Chapter 47: Schmoozing

Part 11: Cognitive Hardware

Chapter 48: Perception and Memory Share Circuitry

Chapter 49: The Cognitive Coalition

Chapter 50: Rewired and Running Hot

Part 12: Subjectivity

Chapter 51: Being There

Chapter 52: What Is It Like to Be Conscious?

Chapter 53: I Want to Take You Higher

Chapter 54: Higher Awareness in the Brain

Part 13: Consciousness Through the Looking Glass of Memory

Chapter 55: The Invention of Experience

Chapter 56: Ah, Memory

Chapter 57: Putting Memories in Their Places

Chapter 58: Higher-Order Awareness Through the Lens of Memory

Part 14: The Shallows
Chapter 59: The Tricky Problem of Other Minds Chapter 60: Creeping Up on Consciousness Chapter 61: Kinds of Minds
Part 15: Emotional Subjectivity
Chapter 62: The Slippery Slopes of Emotional Semantics Chapter 63: Can Survival Circuits Save the Day? Chapter 64: Thoughtful Feelings Chapter 65: Emotional Brains Run HOT Chapter 66: Survival Is Deep, but Our Emotions Are Shallow

Epilogue: Can We Survive Our Self-conscious Selves

Appendix

Bibliography

Index