Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence by Stefano Mancuso, Alessandra Viola
English | March 12th, 2015 | ISBN: 1610917316, 1610916034 | 192 pages | EPUB | 5.24 MB
Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independaction or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since anciGreece, moften concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary — just too differfrom us. Yet discoveries over the past fifty years have challenged these ideas, shedding new light on the extraordinary capabilities and complex interior lives of plants.