Comments on: Book review – The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior/2018/11/12/book-review-the-revolutionary-genius-of-plants-a-new-understanding-of-plant-intelligence-and-behavior/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 31 May 2024 11:42:49 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/12/book-review-the-revolutionary-genius-of-plants-a-new-understanding-of-plant-intelligence-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-94892Fri, 31 May 2024 11:42:49 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2436#comment-94892[…] the mental lives of animals (including emotions, dreams, and consciousness), and even plant neurobiology, and the planetary impact of microbes. Tool use in animals is well documented, and I have no qualms […]

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]]>By: Book review – Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/12/book-review-the-revolutionary-genius-of-plants-a-new-understanding-of-plant-intelligence-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-42406Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:34:49 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2436#comment-42406[…] them, as I hope my reviews of books such as Safina’s Beyond Words and Mancuso’s The Revolutionary Genius of Plants have shown. But comparing them to us introduces a new straitjacket. In Entangled Life, David Read […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Incredible Journey of Plants | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/12/book-review-the-revolutionary-genius-of-plants-a-new-understanding-of-plant-intelligence-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-39057Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:12:26 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2436#comment-39057[…] plant neurobiologist (yes, this is a thing) Stefano Mancuso previously impressed me with The Revolutionary Genius of Plants. With The Incredible Journey of Plants, he has written a captivating collection of vignettes around […]

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]]>By: Book review – Lessons from Plants | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/12/book-review-the-revolutionary-genius-of-plants-a-new-understanding-of-plant-intelligence-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-19430Mon, 17 May 2021 10:42:15 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2436#comment-19430[…] animals have? Montgomery does not mention Stefano Mancuso’s mind-blowing insight served up in The Revolutionary Genius of Plants. He argued they do this by distributing vital functions throughout their body in a diffuse fashion […]

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]]>By: Book review – Superlative: The Biology of Extremes | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/12/book-review-the-revolutionary-genius-of-plants-a-new-understanding-of-plant-intelligence-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-11900Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:54:53 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2436#comment-11900[…] topic) to then show how other animals are also very smart, including octopuses, elephants, ants, plants, and even slime moulds. Each of these is smart in their own unique […]

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]]>By: Book review – Superlative: The Biology of Extremes | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/12/book-review-the-revolutionary-genius-of-plants-a-new-understanding-of-plant-intelligence-and-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-7330Fri, 20 Dec 2019 15:04:36 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2436#comment-7330[…] The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life), elephants, ants, plants (see also my review of The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior), and even slime moulds. Each of these is smart in their own unique […]

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