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发表于2024-08-03
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How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it feel an insect’s spindly legs? How do flowers know when it’s spring? Can they actually remember the weather? And do they care if you play them Led Zeppelin or Bach?
From Darwin’s early fascination with stems and vines to Little Shop of Horrors, we have always marveled at plant diversity and form. Now, in What a Plant Knows, the renowned biologist Daniel Chamovitz presents an intriguing and refreshing look at how plants experience the world. Highlighting the latest research in plant science, he takes us into the lives of different types of plants, and draws parallels with the human senses to reveal that we have much more in common with sunflowers and oak trees than we may realize. He explains how a willow knows when its neighbors have been taken over by a group of hungry beetles, and why an avocado will ripen in a paper bag with a banana (it’s the pheromones). He shows how plants know up from down, and settles the debate, once and for all, over whether or not plants appreciate that music you’ve been playing. Covering touch, sound, smell, sight, and even memory, Chamovitz considers whether it’s too much to ask if plants are aware.
What a Plant Knows is a rare inside look at what life is really like for the grass we walk on, the flowers we sniff, and the trees we climb. It is a true field guide to the senses for science buffs and green thumbs, and for anyone who seeks a greater understanding of our place in nature.
Daniel Chamovitz, PhD, is the director of the Manna Center for Plant Biosciences at Tel Aviv University. His research has appeared in leading scientific journals. He lives in Hod Hasharon, Israel.
简单易读的科普 挺短的
评分很受欢迎的一本植物科普小书,,2013年引进,到今天已重印了十多次。
评分作者行文很规矩,但还挺有趣~
评分睡前读物
评分简单易读的科普 挺短的
植物作为一种生命体,在我的脑海中一直是略显悲情的存在,它的根在土壤里,永远无法离开那个安身立命的地方,不知道痛且彼此之间也无法用语言交流,活着就好像死了。直到打开这本书,我才知道植物的感官在某些方面甚至要比人类更敏感细微,在漫长的演化史里,植物也是不可或缺...
评分前些日子,有朋友送了一箱水果给我们,其中有一颗黄橙橙的柚子。小娃儿极其喜欢,虽然吃力、却依然抱着柚子四处转悠,说:“爸爸,妈妈,你们闻闻柚子香不香啊?”等我们给予肯定的答案后,他还要强调一句:“这是水果的香味。” 其实,植物的香味中,我最爱的是花香。一直以来...
评分万物皆有灵 杜甫有诗云:感时花溅泪,恨别鸟惊心。 植物的世界不是沉默的世界:植物会看、会闻、会触摸、有记忆、能定位。 如果,人类、动物和植物具有相似的本领,都能对复杂的光环境、错综的气味、多样的物理剌 激产生反应;人类、动物和植物都具有偏好性,都有记忆的话。 我...
评分本来看了第一篇文章,觉得会是很枯燥的学术书,没想到从第二篇开始,通过各种科学实验和植物奇妙的对外界的感觉,使整本书越来越有趣。也了解到科学家是怎样做实验一步步得出科学结论的。 比如其中关于植物“嗅觉”的一篇,科学家首先找到了菟比子,五角菟丝子没有叶片(叶绿...
评分我记得豆瓣上曾经有一个很好玩的帖子,内容只有两句话: 向日葵白天跟着太阳转,从东边到西边,那晚上干什么呢? 而且太阳下山时它头在西边,第二天早上怎么回到东边去?一个甩~~~头吗??? 迅速脑补后,大家纷纷被戳中笑点,当然也有观众认真去解答了这个问题。向日葵当...
What a Plant Knows pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024