I think this is a 2.5 for me. Maybe I'd read this at another time and get more from it. It has a lot of interesting information. There are great references to other books I'd like to read, but for some reason the big picture was lost. There are a lot of details, a lot stories personal as well as historical, political, societal. There's exploration and deliberation. I just can't see the intended thesis.
Humans should look beyond their own experiences for determining what it means "to be". With the realization that there are other ways of being, we need other ways of thinking about other life forms. This includes animal rights, environmental protections, etc. This would mean a difference in the way we do business, and business means everything from business, to tech development, to social interaction, etc. How this is to be accomplished is not discussed. One thread that I did not get, for example, was how animals are political. Should we be political in the same way, for the benefit of the group? Animal politics, however, don't involve greed, individual egos, fear of an imagined future, all of the things that drive human politics. So where does the bee's waggle dance come in?
There are so many different things through into this book, but I don't think the author clearly tied all of it together. ( )