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This book provides a convincing argument for the view that whole cells and whole plants growing in competitive wild conditions show aspects of plant behaviour that can be accurately described as 'intelligent'. Trewavas argues that behaviour, like intelligence, must be assessed within the constraints of the anatomical and physiological framework of the organism in question. The fact that plants do not have centralized nervous systems for example, does not exclude
intelligent behaviour. Outside the human dimension, culture is thought largely absent and fitness is the biological property of value. Thus, solving environmental problems that threaten to reduce fitness is another way of viewing intelligent behaviour and has a similar meaning to adaptively variable
behaviour. The capacity to solve these problems might be considered to vary in different organisms, but variation does not mean absence. By extending these ideas into a book that allows a critical and amplified discussion, the author hopes to raise an awareness of the concept of purposive behaviour in plants.
- Sales Rank: #365483 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-08-21
- Released on: 2014-08-21
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Trewavas provides a quite readable, highly personal, holistic approach to this unique, sometimes provocative book focused on plant behavior, particularly how plants respond to various stimuli and the many structures and processes involved in doing the things they need to do in order to survive and reproduce. Recommended." --Choice
"[E]ngaging, interesting, and thought provoking, with a deep commitment and introspection into the world of plant behavior and intelligence from a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional perspective and is, most possibly, the first volume of its kind. ... The volume will be useful for both undergraduate and graduate students of botany, plant science, forestry, plant ecology, and evolution. This could also be helpful for introductory courses in biology, biological sciences, life sciences, and environmental sciences and as an introductory resource for agriculture courses. Enthusiastic readers outside academia interested in plant life, ecology, and evolution will also find this volume engaging." --Plant Science Bulletin
"Trewavas ... encapsulates his life's work beautifully." --Nature
"The fact that the ideas presented in this book will probably not always be easy to accept gives it a unique value. There are oceans of data papers and books, but many fewer intriguing and inspiring ones. Given the, in general, historically wrong view about plants as almost inanimate creatures, they have not been studied as deeply as have animals. Therefore, there are many aspects of plant biology, especially those that can illuminate their behavior and intelligence, that have been left almost untouched. If this book stimulates researchers to address descriptively, theoretically, and experimentally these many overlooked or neglected aspects of plant biology, the book will be a great success, because it is certainly not a typical scientific book, but rather a manifesto." --Trends in Ecology & Evolution
"I recommend this volume to any student at any level, and any amateur or professional clinician or bench scientist who is interested in what living organisms do (and perhaps think about) to survive in the natural world." --Randy Wayne, The Quarterly Review of Biology
About the Author
Anthony Trewavas, Emeritus Professor, University of Edinburgh, FRS
Anthony Trewavas obtained his B.Sc and Ph.D from University College, London in Biochemistry and went to do post doctoral research at the University of East Anglia and the University of Edinburgh, where he became Professor of Plant Biochemistry, as well as undertaking numerous visiting professorships abroad. He has published 250 papers and two books, and is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Academia Europea and has been elected as a Life Member of the American Society of Plant Biology.
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but are as intelligent and communicative as the more primitive animals
By E. N. Anderson
The title is a stopper, and meant to be. The book is extremely sophisticated, detailed and convincing. 100 or even 50 years ago, no one could have made a case for plant intelligence, but dramatic research findings over the last decades have shown that plants--although they lack nervous systems--have exceedingly complex internal communication, mediated by chemicals (plant hormones, ions, etc.). Trewavas provides full details on the chemistry. There is communication even within cells, but what is impressive is the amount of communication and even decision-making that goes on in the whole plant. It has to decide how to grow toward light and away from shade, toward water and nutrients and away from sterile soil, etc. We once thought this was a simple, automatic process, but the reality has turned out to be as chemically and strategically complicated as decision-making in simple invertebrate animals. The real shocker, though, was the discovery several years ago that plants communicate with each other, by releasing chemicals into air and soil. Most of the chatter is about predators: a nibbled leaf signals the root, the root signals neighboring roots, and other trees deploy anti-herbivore defense systems. The new findings show that plants are not about to challenge humans, but are as intelligent and communicative as the more primitive animals. Trewavas gives much detail on these comparison animals. He devotes much attention to defining "behavior" and "intelligence," and showing how broad definitions of these terms cannot exclude plants (or, for that matter, slime molds, hydras, etc.). In short, this is a new way to look at plants. Those who haven't been keeping up on the new work are in for a real surprise. Those who have been talking to their plants for years will feel vindicated (plants don't understand human speech--sorry--but they certainly respond to good care), but, more to the point, they will get a solid dose of serious chemistry and genetics to back them up.
The one problem with this book is that it was apparently not copyedited at all. When I published with OUP, they did meticulous copyediting. They seem to have stopped. There are comma faults on almost every page, misspellings (e.g. Gardener for Gardner on p. 194), and that grossest of errors, using an apostrophe in a plural ("the ideas of the Darwin's--Erasmus and Charles," p. 216). There are poorly structured sentences, and even some sentences I can't decode--apparently printing errors that nobody caught. There is misidentification of Greek as "Latin" (p. 256, etymology). Shame on Oxford UP. This book deserves better.
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