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    Thus Spoke the Plant
    Thus Spoke the Plant
    A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants
    An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life. In this ''phytobiography''-a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant-research scientist Monica Gagliano reveals the dynamic role plants play in 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.
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    US$ 22.99







    Book Author
    Monica Gagliano
    Genre Nature , Science
    Binding
    PERFECT BINDING (PAPERBACK)
    Format
    Large Print 16 Pt Edition (Standard Large Print)
    ISBN
    9780369307323
    Publisher
    North Atlantic Books
    Age Range
    General
    Approximate delivery

    Up to 20 business days (?)

    Publication Date
    01-Aug-2019

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