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The light eaters : how the unseen world of plant intelligence offers a new understanding of life on Earth / Zoë Schlanger.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, [2024]Description: 290 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780063073852
Other title:
  • How the unseen world of plant intelligence offers a new understanding of life on Earth
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 571.2 23/eng/20240213
LOC classification:
  • QK711.2 .S34 2024
Contents:
Chapter 1. -- The question of plant consciousness -- Chapter 2. -- How science changes its mind -- Chapter 3. -- The communicating plant -- Chapter 4. -- Alive to feeling -- Chapter 5. -- An ear to the ground -- Chapter 6. -- The (plant) body keeps the score -- Chapter 7. -- Conversations with animals -- Chapter 8. -- The scientist and the chameleon vine -- Chapter 9. -- The social life of plants -- Chapter 10. -- Inheritance -- Chapter 11. -- Plant futures.
Summary: "A book exploring the emerging science on plant intelligence, uncovering plants' complex and unimaginable capabilities and calling into question what we consider to be conscious agents in the natural world"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. -- The question of plant consciousness -- Chapter 2. -- How science changes its mind -- Chapter 3. -- The communicating plant -- Chapter 4. -- Alive to feeling -- Chapter 5. -- An ear to the ground -- Chapter 6. -- The (plant) body keeps the score -- Chapter 7. -- Conversations with animals -- Chapter 8. -- The scientist and the chameleon vine -- Chapter 9. -- The social life of plants -- Chapter 10. -- Inheritance -- Chapter 11. -- Plant futures.

"A book exploring the emerging science on plant intelligence, uncovering plants' complex and unimaginable capabilities and calling into question what we consider to be conscious agents in the natural world"--

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