What a Plant Knows pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
Daniel Chamovitz, PhD, is the director of the Manna Center for Plant Biosciences at Tel Aviv University. His research has appeared in leading scientific journals. He lives in Hod Hasharon, Israel.
- 科普
- 植物
- 自然科学
- 生物
- 植物之书
- 自然
- 英文原版
- 英文
How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it feel an insect’s spindly legs? How do flowers know when it’s spring? Can they actually remember the weather? And do they care if you play them Led Zeppelin or Bach?
From Darwin’s early fascination with stems and vines to Little Shop of Horrors, we have always marveled at plant diversity and form. Now, in What a Plant Knows, the renowned biologist Daniel Chamovitz presents an intriguing and refreshing look at how plants experience the world. Highlighting the latest research in plant science, he takes us into the lives of different types of plants, and draws parallels with the human senses to reveal that we have much more in common with sunflowers and oak trees than we may realize. He explains how a willow knows when its neighbors have been taken over by a group of hungry beetles, and why an avocado will ripen in a paper bag with a banana (it’s the pheromones). He shows how plants know up from down, and settles the debate, once and for all, over whether or not plants appreciate that music you’ve been playing. Covering touch, sound, smell, sight, and even memory, Chamovitz considers whether it’s too much to ask if plants are aware.
What a Plant Knows is a rare inside look at what life is really like for the grass we walk on, the flowers we sniff, and the trees we climb. It is a true field guide to the senses for science buffs and green thumbs, and for anyone who seeks a greater understanding of our place in nature.
具体描述
读后感
问题一： <原文开始>“受细菌侵害的叶子会释放一种叫做水杨酸甲酯的气体；被害虫摄食的叶子就不会释放这种气体，但会产生另 一种叫茉莉酸甲酯的气体”。</原文结束> 后文中作者提到，水杨酸是阿司匹林的化学前体，而溶于水的水杨酸可转化为水杨酸甲酯。水杨酸甲酯用作人类身...
评分万物皆有灵 杜甫有诗云：感时花溅泪，恨别鸟惊心。 植物的世界不是沉默的世界：植物会看、会闻、会触摸、有记忆、能定位。 如果，人类、动物和植物具有相似的本领，都能对复杂的光环境、错综的气味、多样的物理剌 激产生反应；人类、动物和植物都具有偏好性，都有记忆的话。 我...
评分对世界上的很多事情我们都漠不关心，而我们甚至都不会去想这个问题。我们有太多时期要操心，小到生活琐事，大到赚钱糊口。或者有些人还要考虑考虑国家大事，国际局势。又或者要读那些读不懂的书，思考高深莫测的问题。有时候我们觉得已经对这个世界太了解，对自己的生活了如指...
评分前些日子，有朋友送了一箱水果给我们，其中有一颗黄橙橙的柚子。小娃儿极其喜欢，虽然吃力、却依然抱着柚子四处转悠，说：“爸爸，妈妈，你们闻闻柚子香不香啊？”等我们给予肯定的答案后，他还要强调一句：“这是水果的香味。” 其实，植物的香味中，我最爱的是花香。一直以来...
评分用户评价
Touch the leaves of an oak, knowing that the tree will remember it was touched. But it won’t remember you. You, on the other hand, can remember this particular tree and carry the memory of it with you forever. 还成吧 基础生物知识
评分1st:20140426-20140428.
评分刚开始觉得说植物能看，能听太夸张了些，看到后记作者很认真的在解释这些概念的含义，最后也释然了。总体来说，论证逻辑清晰，英文原版也算通俗易懂。作者还有Coursera，算是个小惊喜。
评分对于贯穿全书的唯机械论解释还是报怀疑态度，不过基本演绎法还是亮
评分简单的科普小书，英文版正文部分只有130多页，很容易读完。植物真是安静，聪明，又可爱的生物啊！
相关图书
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息，本站不存储任何数据与内容，任何内容与数据均与本站无关，如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度，google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 qciss.net All Rights Reserved. 小哈图书下载中心 版权所有