Brilliant Green
The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
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Narrated by:
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Mike Chamberlain
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Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary - just too different from us. Yet discoveries over the past 50 years have challenged these ideas, shedding new light on the extraordinary capabilities and complex interior lives of plants.
In Brilliant Green, Stefano Mancuso, a leading scientist and founder of the field of plant neurobiology, presents a new paradigm in our understanding of the vegetal world. Combining a historical perspective with the latest in plant science, Mancuso argues that, due to cultural prejudices and human arrogance, we continue to underestimate plants. In fact, they process information, sleep, remember, and signal to one another-showing that, far from passive machines, plants are intelligent and aware.
Through a survey of plant capabilities from sight and touch to communication, Mancuso challenges our notion of intelligence, presenting a vision of plant life that is more sophisticated than most imagine.
©2013 Giunti Editore S.P.A. Firenze-Milano; English edition copyright 2015 by Island Press; Translation copyright 2015 by Joan Benham; Foreword copyright 2015 by Michael Pollan (P)2020 TantorWhat listeners say about Brilliant Green
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- Anonymous User
- 23-03-2024
The other intelligent life form
Love this delve into understanding the biology of plants, their intelligence, and our interconnectedness with them - our dependence upon which our very lives depend on them, and the integrity, protection and respect we own them. Great listen!
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- Lea Hullett
- 31-05-2021
Exciting and extraordinary
It has occured to me before that plants are sentient beings. This book explains how that is indeed so. Maybe, they even communicate with us.
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