The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth — ranked audiobook

This week’s list includes The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth, from Zoë Schlanger. Press play and stay for every chapter.

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabilities of the green life all around us. It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents. The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the comp

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