Why is movement unnecessary in plants? How do they reproduce and defend themselves as stationary organisms? Why are plants asymmetrical and without a fixed size? Why are some practically immortal? Why in the plant world is creating clones a daily natural phenomenon;
By what mechanism do plants manage to exploit an almost inexhaustible, extraterrestrial energy source? How do they regulate the composition of the Earth's atmosphere, the water cycle, the flow of matter and energy, and ultimately, the climate? Why haven't plants experienced mass extinctions like animals in the past? How do plants perceive the living and non-living world, and how do they communicate with each other;
Are plants, ultimately, intelligent organisms? These are some of the questions this book addresses, in an effort to convince the reader that plants are wrongly considered simple organisms without apparent behavior and intelligence, and therefore without particular interest. In fact, they will be pleasantly surprised, as Alice was when she fell into the rabbit hole and found herself in a world so different from our own.
Author: MANETAS, GIANNIS
Language: ENGLISH
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 24X17X0
Year of publication: 2010
