Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

by Alessandra Viola and Stefano Mancuso

Book Overview

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 fifty years have challenged these ideas, shedding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610917316
• ISBN13: 9781610917315
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.9"