In this intriguing book, Matthew Hall, influenced by his professor back in the undergraduate years as a plant scientist, made him think about the wider social and ethical implications of plant intelligence, which eventually, with a lot of effort, wrote this book according to him "as my response to the thought-provoking ideas". From a scientific point of view, plants underpin the primary productivity of agricultural, ecological and human ecosystems through their ability to produce primary biomass by photosynthesis. Read More |