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发表于2025-02-16
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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.
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评分Touch the leaves of an oak, knowing that the tree will remember it was touched. But it won’t remember you. You, on the other hand, can remember this particular tree and carry the memory of it with you forever. 还成吧 基础生物知识
评分对于贯穿全书的唯机械论解释还是报怀疑态度,不过基本演绎法还是亮
评分藏书阁打卡 ‖ 一本可爱又魅力十足的科普。植物小白表示原版比译版接受度更高。专业词汇以外,语言简洁明了,例证趣味性十足,配图满分。让人读得津津有味。 当然,所谓的植物能够'看,听,闻,感知,记忆'等,只是作者为了让读者明白,而通过阐述人类的视嗅触听觉等的形成机制来进行对比解释。作者反复强调:植物没有大脑。但它们却有意识。所以他们对光,声音,触碰等的感知,只是为了改变当下的生理状况,以求得更好的生存罢了。 另外,作者在语言间表现出来对植物的热爱,让读者能够对植物产生共情。也让我们思考,如果植物真的有感觉能交流,那么我们的未来会如何呢?!
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。
对世界上的很多事情我们都漠不关心,而我们甚至都不会去想这个问题。我们有太多时期要操心,小到生活琐事,大到赚钱糊口。或者有些人还要考虑考虑国家大事,国际局势。又或者要读那些读不懂的书,思考高深莫测的问题。有时候我们觉得已经对这个世界太了解,对自己的生活了如指...
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...
评分拿到书后,被封面的绿意深深吸引。翻开扉页,植物图腾的纹案映入眼帘,突显的书名,就如那些纹案一样富有生机。浓浓的油墨味有些冲鼻,仿佛闻到了某种植物为了保护自己散发的气味。书的封套很有趣,摊开来看,是彩色的植物和昆虫图案,孤陋寡闻的我只认识蜻蜓和蝴蝶,...
评分对世界上的很多事情我们都漠不关心,而我们甚至都不会去想这个问题。我们有太多时期要操心,小到生活琐事,大到赚钱糊口。或者有些人还要考虑考虑国家大事,国际局势。又或者要读那些读不懂的书,思考高深莫测的问题。有时候我们觉得已经对这个世界太了解,对自己的生活了如指...
评分问题一: <原文开始>“受细菌侵害的叶子会释放一种叫做水杨酸甲酯的气体;被害虫摄食的叶子就不会释放这种气体,但会产生另 一种叫茉莉酸甲酯的气体”。</原文结束> 后文中作者提到,水杨酸是阿司匹林的化学前体,而溶于水的水杨酸可转化为水杨酸甲酯。水杨酸甲酯用作人类身...
What a Plant Knows pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025