The light eaters : how the unseen world of plant intelligence offers a new understanding of life on Earth
(2024)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
571.2/SCHLANGER,Z

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Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

290 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780063073852, 0063073854 :, 0063073854, 9780063073852
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"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"--

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

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