The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and about Ourselves

Nashi predstavleniya ob inoplanetyanah kak o neobychnoy forme zhizni zachastuyu osnovany na zrelishchnyh gollivudskih fil'mah i fantasticheskih rasskazah. Odnako biologicheskie zakony, deystvuyushchie na nashey planete, rabotayut vo vsekh ugolkah Vselennoy. Opirayas' na svoi professional'nye znaniya, nablyudeniya za zhivotnymi i darvinovskuyu teoriyu evolyucii, zoolog Arik Kershenbaum rasskazyvaet o tom, kakie cherty, svoystvennye obitatelyam Zemli, mogut byt' prisushchi formam inoplanetnoy zhizni. Avtor privodit bol'shoy spisok literatury dlya tekh, kto hochet bolee gluboko pogruzit'sya v eti temy.