Sentient

Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Human Senses uses the exotic sensory worlds of creatures?from mantis shrimp to star-nosed moles?to reveal how humans perceive their environment and how limited our sensory understanding often is. Higgins combines science, stories and curiosity to explore questions of touch, taste, hearing, sight and smell in surprising terrain. Along the way she invites us to re-think human centrality in sense-making and reflect on what we miss. The result is part popular science, part exploration of consciousness and nature, engaging for both general readers and curious thinkers.