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Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

by Alessandra Viola (Author), Alessandra Viola (Author), Stefano Mancuso (Author)

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Synopsis

A leading plant scientist offers a new understanding of the botanical world and a passionate argument for intelligent plant life. Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? For centuries, philosophers and scientists have argued that plants are unthinking and inert, yet discoveries over the past fifty years have challenged this idea, shedding new light on the complex interior lives of plants. In Brilliant Green, leading scientist Stefano Mancuso presents a new paradigm in our understanding of the vegetal world. He argues that plants process information, sleep, remember, and signal to one another- showing that, far from passive machines, plants are intelligent and aware. Part botany lesson, part manifesto, Brilliant Green is an engaging and passionate examination of the inner workings of the plant kingdom.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 184
 Edition: None ed.
 Publisher: Island Press
Published: 14 Jan 2019
ISBN 10: 1610917316
ISBN 13: 9781610917315
Book Overview: An accessible, entertaining survey of the intelligent abilities of plants, including communication, problem solving, and memory. Author Stefano Mancuso is internationally known as a leader in the new (and controversial) field of plant neurobiology. In describing plant behaviour and capabilities, the authors point to larger questions about the nature of intelligence and humans' relationship with the natural world.

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[Brilliant Green] is, like the best science, the product of a powerful imagination, one with the ability to see the world from a completely fresh and unencumbered point of view--and to communicate that perspective to the rest of us. So put aside for a couple of hours your accustomed anthropocentrism, and step into this other, richer and more wonderful world. You won't regret it, and you won't emerge from it ever quite the same again. --From the foreword by Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Botany of Desire, and other books
Author Bio
Stefano Mancuso is the Director of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology (LINV) in Florence, Italy, a founder of the International Society for Plant Signaling and Behavior, and a professor at the University of Florence. His books and papers have been published in numerous international magazines and journals, and La Repubblica newspaper has listed him among the twenty people who will change our lives. Alessandra Viola is a scientific journalist, writer of documentaries, and a television scriptwriter. In 2011, she directed the Genoa Science Festival.