The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

© The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger, Harper Collins Publishers, 2024

This fascinating book is a welcome update to our understanding of plant intelligence, following decades of wholesale dismissal by the scientific community of any notions that plants actually might be capable of things like communicating, remembering, knowing their kin, or even preferentially providing for their kin. An earlier book on the topic, The Secret Life of Plants, was unfortunately rife with misinformation and created a disdain for research into plant intelligence. But recent research, as reported in The Light Eaters, provides us with new insights and a fascinating view into the no-longer-secret life of plants.

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