Darwin's Pharmacy by Richard Doyle
Sex, Plants and the Evolution of the Noosphere
A provocative, interdisciplinary study arguing that plant chemistry—especially psychoactive compounds—has played a formative role in animal and human evolution and the emergence of collective minds; drawing on botany, evolutionary biology, ethnobotany, neuroscience, and cultural history, it traces how plants’ sexual and chemical strategies coevolved with animal behavior and how human use of mind‑altering plants helped shape cognition, language, ritual, and social organization, urging a rethinking of plant agency and our ecological relationship with the vegetal world.
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