By Peter Godfrey-Smith (2016)
This really is excellent! Learnt loads on this (pretty fascinating) subject (intelligence and cognition in octopuses and cuttlefish). To my surprise it also includes a short account of the theory of ageing – which I had a chapter of my PhD on. Usually you see the cracks when an author moves onto something you’re very familiar with, but I have to say he pretty much nails it. It actually sent me back to my thesis (for the first time in 8 years) to refresh myself on the background.
Genuine sense of affection and pathos for these wonderful animals. Was quite cut-up at the inevitable death of the short-lived intelligent giant cuttlefish.