> A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants—and tries a little too hard to explain how they’re like people.
If you're ever at risk of thinking that plants are like people, you can cure it by reading about alternation of generation in bryophytes. If bryophytes were like humans it would be like if our (haploid) sperm/eggs went out and got a job and an apartment and a social life and only bothered spin up a (diploid) human for sexy times. Plants are bizarre.
>> Rejecting the anthropomorphism that permeates the preceding 10 chapters, she cautions that “putting too human a sheen on plant intelligence is a failure of imagination.”
A courtesy caveat emptor for the objective passersby suffering from acute antilibrary fatigue.
> A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants—and tries a little too hard to explain how they’re like people.
If you're ever at risk of thinking that plants are like people, you can cure it by reading about alternation of generation in bryophytes. If bryophytes were like humans it would be like if our (haploid) sperm/eggs went out and got a job and an apartment and a social life and only bothered spin up a (diploid) human for sexy times. Plants are bizarre.