Quest #15: Reimagining DNA and Human History, with Jeremy Narby

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Enjoy our first 3BQ conversation with Jeremy Narby here.

Author of “The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge,” “Intelligence in Nature,” and co-editor of Shamans Through Time (with Francis Huxley), Jeremy Narby is an anthropologist who has been working as Amazonian Projects Coordinator for the Swiss NGO “Nouvelle Planète” since 1990. “I began working as an activist and fundraiser for Indigenous initiatives in the Amazon, and as an independent anthropologist I also tried to make sense of the Amazonian point of view. So this led me some 25 years ago to start looking into domains like biology, botany, and neurology. At the time it was already clear that biology confirms human kinship with other species and that all living beings are genetically related. Scientists were starting to document intelligent behavior in all kinds of living organisms. The more science looked at the intricacies of the natural world, the more intelligence it seemed to find.This encouraged me to look into intelligence in nature, a subject that concerned both science and Indigenous knowledge. In the early 2000s, I interviewed scientists in different countries who were working on this subject, only to find that there was a basic problem with words.” Afterwards, join the Baldwin brothers – Ian, Michael, and Philip – for their fraternal reflections on this 3 Brothers Quest episode.

QUEST MAP

Jeremy Narby does not have a web site, but his books and thinking is easily accessed via the Internet. We suggest beginning your quest with a reading of his mind-expanding book “The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge.”

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