The Light Eaters
How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
New York, NY : Harper, [2024]
Format: Book
Description: pages cm
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
ISBN:
9780063073852
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Includes bibliographical references and index.