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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Unders
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- ISBN-13
- 9780063073852
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- ISBN
- 9780063073852
- Book Title
- Light Eaters : How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Nature, Psychology, Science
- Topic
- Life Sciences / Ecology, Life Sciences / Botany, Plants / General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 19.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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"A masterpiece of science writing." -Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass "Mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful." -Ed Yong, author of An Immense World "Rich, vital, and full of surprises. Read it!" -Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction "A brilliant must-read. This book shook and changed me." -David George Haskell, author of Sounds Wild and Broken , The Songs of Trees , and The Forest Unseen Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabilities of the green life all around us. It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents. The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the beak of its pollinator, a pea seedling that can hear water flowing and make its way toward it? Zoë Schlanger takes us across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close. What can we learn about life on Earth from the living things that thrive, adapt, consume, and accommodate simultaneously? More important, what do we owe these life forms once we come to understand their rich and varied abilities? Examining the latest epiphanies in botanical research, Schlanger spotlights the intellectual struggles among the researchers conceiving a wholly new view of their subject, offering a glimpse of a field in turmoil as plant scientists debate the tenets of ongoing discoveries and how they influence our understanding of what a plant is. We need plants to survive. But what do they need us for--if at all? An eye-opening and informative look at the ecosystem we live in, this book challenges us to rethink the role of plants--and our own place--in the natural world.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0063073854
ISBN-13
9780063073852
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21062381121
Product Key Features
Book Title
Light Eaters : How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Ecology, Life Sciences / Botany, Plants / General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Nature, Psychology, Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Qk711.2.S34 2024
Reviews
"I'll never look at plants--or the natural world--in the same way again, after reading Zoë Schlanger's stunning book. Instead of trying to ram the square peg of botanical life into the round holes of human biology and metaphors, Schlanger instead considers plants on their own terms, as they actually are. The result is mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful." -- Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes "A brilliant must-read about the marvels of the green world. This book shook and changed me, revealing plant intelligence as more strange and wondrous than I could imagine. Zoë Schlanger's explorations brim with curiosity and every page brings new revelation and insight." -- David George Haskell, author of Sounds Wild and Broken, The Songs of Trees, and The Forest Unseen, "I'll never look at plants--or the natural world--in the same way again, after reading Zoë Schlanger's stunning book. Instead of trying to ram the square peg of botanical life into the round holes of human biology and metaphors, Schlanger instead considers plants on their own terms, as they actually are. The result is mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful." -- Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes
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2023-037601
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