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

Award-winning environment and science reporter 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 surv...

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Main Author: Schlanger, Zoë (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • 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.