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    Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
    Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
    Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
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    Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

    Written by Stefano Mancuso, Alessandra Viola and Michael Pollan

    Narrated by 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 fifty 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    TranslatorJoan Benham
    Release dateJun 30, 2020
    ISBN9781705240861
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    Stefano Mancuso

    Stefano Mancuso is one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of plant neurobiology, which explores signaling and communication at all levels of biological organization. He is the associate professor at the University of Florence in Italy and has published more than 250 scientific papers in international journals.

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    • 1/5
      It relied heavily upon the Charles Darwin theory,Evolution, which is not only wrong and heavily flawed, but downright racist from its inception.
    • 5/5
      Opened my eyes to seeing the value in this vast resource in our world.
    • 5/5
      Fascinating and detailed description of how intelligent, and how human-like plant’s capacities and behaviours really are. (Did you know plants have 15 additional senses to our five?)

      And of how foundational and central plants are to life on Earth – comprising 99.7+ % of the planets biomass, and forming the vital bridge between solar energy and I all organic life.
    • 2/5
      You're going to have to be really cool with a ton of repetition.