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Brilliant Green

The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

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Brilliant Green

By: Stefano Mancuso, Alessandra Viola, Michael Pollan - foreword, Joan Benham - translator
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
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Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary - just too different from us. Yet discoveries over the past 50 years have challenged these ideas, shedding new light on the extraordinary capabilities and complex interior lives of plants.

In Brilliant Green, Stefano Mancuso, a leading scientist and founder of the field of plant neurobiology, presents a new paradigm in our understanding of the vegetal world. Combining a historical perspective with the latest in plant science, Mancuso argues that, due to cultural prejudices and human arrogance, we continue to underestimate plants. In fact, they process information, sleep, remember, and signal to one another-showing that, far from passive machines, plants are intelligent and aware.

Through a survey of plant capabilities from sight and touch to communication, Mancuso challenges our notion of intelligence, presenting a vision of plant life that is more sophisticated than most imagine.

©2013 Giunti Editore S.P.A. Firenze-Milano; English edition copyright 2015 by Island Press; Translation copyright 2015 by Joan Benham; Foreword copyright 2015 by Michael Pollan (P)2020 Tantor Biological Sciences Botany & Plants Environment Outdoors & Nature Science Thought-Provoking Physiology Brilliant Green

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A very good collection of fascinating scientific findings, which highlight plants sentient nature and their fundamental role on the survival of all species on the planet.
The book also illustrates the sophisticated survival strategies and mechanisms that plants use to mange resources and to communicate amongst themselves and with other living beings.
A short and very enjoyable listening

Everybody should read this book

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To be taken with a pinch of salt , this is a very interesting idea out forward. Maybe it's the intelligence bias mentioned in the book which makes this hard to swallow. Never the less, some very tought compelling theories put forward and some truly amazing examples of plant intelligence are given.

Interesting read

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An important book for our times and with much food for thought. The content is based on sound research and is very credible. What let the audio experience down for me was the poor performance and irritating voice.

An important book for our times.

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