| Darwin''s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere Subjects: Biology -- Philosophy; Gaia hypothesis; Biosphere; Hallucinogenic plants -- Psychic aspects; Hallucinogenic drugs -- Psychological aspects; Consciousness; Sexual selection in animals; Rhetoric -- Philosophy; Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin's Pharmacy shows they are by weaving the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs. Long suppressed as components of the human tool kit, psychedelic plants can be usefully modeled as "eloquence adjuncts" that intensify a crucial component of sexual selection in humans: discourse. Richard M. Doyle is professor of English and science, technology, and society at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of On Beyond Living and Wetwares |