Making Sense of the Senses
- ISBN-10
- 9811246297
- ISBN-13
- 9789811246296
- Category
- Perception
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022
- Publisher
- World Scientific Publishing Company
- Author
- Tobias Wibble
Description
Making Sense of the Senses provides an easily understandable and engaging overview of the senses. It allows readers some insight into how both humans and other animals perceive the world, reflecting a level of knowledge that roughly matches that acquired by studying the neurosciences at an undergraduate level. This is achieved through the use of interesting examples that aim to shed light on the wonders of sensory biology which allow us to see, smell, hear, taste and touch. Rather than focusing just on human biology, the book dives deep into the various methods through which life across the planet surveys the world. From their evolutionary beginnings, it follows each of the five main senses into animal and human brains alike, exploring why, when and how they came to exist the way they did. By comparing our relatively modest sensory capabilities to those of other species across the animal kingdom, we are forced to yield our anthropocentric sense of supremacy to the way sensory specialists across the animal kingdom have solved the problem of how to perceive the world. By contextualising and comparing how each sense operates across the animal kingdom, this book achieves what no popular science book has previously done.
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