Charming ... r. Ward breaks down our quintet of senses one by one, describing how they work. To keep things light, he enriches each page with anecdotes from the natural world ... By book’s end, then, Mr. Ward has completed a shift from physiology to psychology. However simple the senses seem, our brains take that raw material and twist or augment it in ways both unsettling and amazing, and often both.
The science illuminates the complex processes through which creatures make sense of their surroundings, and the delivery benefits greatly from the author’s stylish, evocative prose ... This will change how readers see the world.
