PositiveThe Wall Street Journal...a smoothly written and captivating account of the octopus and its brethren, as observed by humans ... I found the facts more enlivening than the philosophy, but then philosophy is hard ... Mr. Godfrey-Smith mixes the scientific with the personal, giving us lively descriptions of his dives to 'Octopolis,' a site off the east coast of Australia at which octopuses gather ... Though it’s easy to think of octopuses as alien, a better view is that they are our cousins in biological destiny—spirits in a material world.