Planta sapiens : the new science of plant intelligence / Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2023Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First American editionDescription: 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 0393881083
- 9780393881080
- QK711.2 .C35 2023
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First published in Great Britain in 2022 by The Bridge Street Press.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-270) and index.
Introduction: putting plants to sleep -- Seeing plants anew. Plant blindness ; Seeking a plant's perspective ; Smart plant behaviour -- The science of plant intelligence. Phytonervous systems ; Do plants think? ; Ecological cognition -- Bearing fruit. What is it like to be a plant? ; Plant liberation ; Green robots -- Epilogue: the hippocampus-fattening farm.
"Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with one another, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is the new evidence that plants may actually be sentient. Although plants may not have brains, their microscopic commerce exposes a system not unlike the neuronal networks running through our own bodies. They can learn and remember, possessing an intelligence that allows them to behave in adaptive, flexible, anticipatory, and goal-directed ways"--