Plant Intelligence
When a great scientist clarifies his lifetime’s work, we are led to ask ourselves existential questions.Are we defined by our form? Are we parasitic predators? What does our life expectancy, our smell mean? Do...
This French biographical essay takes us with great finesse and intelligence into the immense world of botanists who are, all together, discoverers, descriptors, travelers and adventurers. The manager of the Herbarium of the Jardin...
A recent and precise pedagogical sum from a great Israeli biologist on the latest discoveries about plants and their senses (smell, taste, touch, sight, hearing, memory, orientation). Do you understand? It’s not about our...
A contemporary philosophy book about plants is rare and precious. This one talks about metaphysics, breath, mixture. Plants are major players in the origin of earthly life. At last we break out of the...
S. Mancuso, a great biologist, highlights the lessons that humans could learn from plants, about water treatment, architecture or democracy. An evolutionary, even revolutionary vision of the balance of living things. The first difficult...
Joëlle Zask is a philosopher and academic. She was shocked by the recent ravages of fire in the south of France and she shares her philosophical and political thoughts on mega-fires. It’s fascinating. Mega...
This beautiful book, full of extraordinary stories of animals, takes us into the meanders of intelligence. Is there a good definition, a hierarchy, an evolution of intelligence? The expected but not trivial conclusion is...
Our Florentine scientist and favorite author on this subject. He boldly knows how to train us in dangerous areas where men and women no longer have their usual bearings. What if plants really were...
These two books by the same author are exciting because they show the evolution of thought among scientists on this topic of plant intelligence. In two years, the speech was very nuanced. In 2016,...
A superb record in french on plant intelligence that explains most of the latest scientific discoveries and presents their political context. But plant intelligence is like Voldemort in Harry Potter, nobody dares to say...
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