{"id":8463,"date":"2024-09-22T16:02:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T16:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/the-light-eaters-how-the-unseen-world-of-plant-intelligence-offers-a-new-understanding-of-life-on-earth\/"},"modified":"2024-09-22T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T16:02:41","slug":"the-light-eaters-how-the-unseen-world-of-plant-intelligence-offers-a-new-understanding-of-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/the-light-eaters-how-the-unseen-world-of-plant-intelligence-offers-a-new-understanding-of-life-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER <\/p>\n

\u201cA masterpiece of science writing.\u201d \u2013Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass<\/p>\n

\u201cMesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful.\u201d \u2013Ed Yong, author of An Immense World<\/p>\n

\u201cRich, vital, and full of surprises. Read it!\u201d\u00a0\u2013Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA brilliant must-read. This book shook and changed me.\u201d \u2013David George Haskell, author of Sounds Wild and Broken, The Songs of Trees, and The Forest Unseen<\/p>\n

Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zo\u00eb Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom, \u201cdestabilizing not just how we see the green things of the world but also our place in the hierarchy of beings, and maybe the notion of that hierarchy itself.\u201d (The New Yorker)<\/p>\n

It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents.<\/p>\n

The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the beak of its pollinator, a pea seedling that can hear water flowing and make its way toward it? Zo\u00eb Schlanger takes us across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close.<\/p>\n

What can we learn about life on Earth from the living things that thrive, adapt, consume, and accommodate simultaneously? More important, what do we owe these life forms once we come to understand their rich and varied abilities? Examining the latest epiphanies in botanical research, Schlanger spotlights the intellectual struggles among the researchers conceiving a wholly new view of their subject, offering a glimpse of a field in turmoil as plant scientists debate the tenets of ongoing discoveries and how they influence our understanding of what a plant is.<\/p>\n

We need plants to survive. But what do they need us for\u2014if at all? An eye-opening and informative look at the ecosystem we live in, this book challenges us to rethink the role of plants\u2014and our own place\u2014in the natural world.<\/p>\n


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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Harper (May 7, 2024)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Hardcover \u200f : \u200e 304 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0063073854
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0063073852
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 2.31 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 6 x 0.92 x 9 inches <\/p>\n

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