Thus Spoke the Plant : A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants (1623172438)

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 176 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 12.7mm | 272.16g
• Publication date 13 Nov 2018
• Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.
• Publication City/Country Berkeley, CA, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 15
• ISBN10 1623172438
• ISBN13 9781623172435
• Bestsellers rank 10,913

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