Planta sapiens : the new science of plant intelligence
(2023, original release: 2022)
By:
Calvo, Paco
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
571.2019/CALVO,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2023
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393881080, 0393881083 :, 0393881083, 9780393881080
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"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"--