Thus Spoke the Plant: A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants

Description

This compelling story of a scientist’s discovery of plant communication
reveals how we “have been misunderstanding plants, and ourselves, for all of
history”—for fans of The Hidden Life of Trees (The Paris Review). In this
“phytobiography”—a collection of stories written in partnership with a
plant—research scientist Monica Gagliano shares genuine first-hand accounts
from her research into plant communication and cognition. By transcending the
view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages
us to rethink plants as people—beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and
volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices.
The book draws on up-close-and-personal encounters with the plants themselves,
as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world
and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and the
groundbreaking scientific discoveries that emerged from it. Gagliano has
published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a
Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can learn, remember, and communicate to
neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant
bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit
their own ‘voices’ and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their
environments. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the
exclusive province of animals, Gagliano has re-ignited the discourse on plant
subjectivity and ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made
those discoveries and how the plants helped her along the way. Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Atlantic Books; Illustrated edition (November 13, 2018)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1623172438
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 35
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.96 x 0.51 x 8.97 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #326,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #298 in Shamanism (Books) #300 in Botany (Books) #491 in Ecology (Books)
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