Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants (eBook)

Darwin's Botany Today

Thompson Ken Thompson (Autor)

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2018
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978-1-78283-436-6 (ISBN)

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Most of us think of Darwin at work on The Beagle, taking inspiration for his theory of evolution from his travels in the Galapagos. But Darwin published his Origin of Species nearly thirty years after his voyages and most of his labours in that time were focused on experimenting with and observing plants at his house in Kent. He was particularly interested in carnivorous and climbing plants, and in pollination and the evolution of flowers. Ken Thompson sees Darwin as a brilliant and revolutionary botanist, whose observations and theories were far ahead of his time - and are often only now being confirmed and extended by high-tech modern research. Like Darwin, he is fascinated and amazed by the powers of plants - particularly their Triffid-like aspects of movement, hunting and 'plant intelligence'. This is a much needed book that re-establishes Darwin as a pioneering botanist, whose close observations of plants were crucial to his theories of evolution.

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Thompson makes his case in a lively, readable style ... Better yet, he bolsters his argument with plenty of citations from the scientific literature, which adds welcome heft.

'Fascinating, provocative... Ken Thompson presents a stimulating challenge to our perceptions of nature'

Lively and punchy ... Thompson's arguments are powerful and his examples are fascinating

Vivid account ... with a light touch and a welcome sense of humour, Thompson reveals Darwin as an acute observer of flora as well as fauna

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2018
• Zusatzinfo: Photographs and illustrations
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Schlagworte: Alfred Russel Wallace • Biology • Botany • carnivorous plants • Charles Darwin • climbing plants • Darwin • Down House • Drosera • Evolution • Flowers • Insectivorous Plants • Joseph Hooker • Joseph Paxton • Kew Gardens • On the movements and habits of climbing plants • On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing • Orchids • Origin of Species • Plant Breeding • plant glues • plants • Research • Science • Sundews • tendrils • The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species • The effects of cross and self-fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom • The Power of Movement in Plants • The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication • twining plants • Venus Flytrap • wisteria
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-436-2 / 1782834362
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-436-6 / 9781782834366