Stefano Mancuso has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 17 ratings. The most-rated is The Revolutionary Genius of Plants.
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants
Summary
Do plants have intelligence? Do they have memory? Are they better problem solvers than people? The Revolutionary Genius of Plants - a fascinating, paradigm-shifting work that upends everything you thought you knew about plants - makes a compelling scientific case that these and other astonishing ideas are all true. Plants make up 80 percent of the weight of all living things on earth, and yet it is easy to forget that these innocuous, beautiful organisms are responsible for not only the air that lets us survive but for many of our modern comforts: our medicine, our food supply, even our fossil fuels. On the forefront of uncovering the essential truths about plants, world-renowned scientist Stefano Mancuso reveals the surprisingly sophisticated ability of plants to innovate, to remember, and to learn, offering us creative solutions to the most vexing technological and ecological problems that face us today. Despite not having brains or central nervous systems, plants perceive their surroundings with an even greater sensitivity than animals. They efficiently explore and react promptly to potentially damaging external events thanks to their cooperative, shared systems; without any central command centers, they are able to remember prior catastrophic events and to actively adapt to new ones. Every minute of The Revolutionary Genius of Plants bubbles over with Stefano Mancuso’s infectious love for plants and for the eye-opening research that makes it more and more clear how remarkable our fellow inhabitants on this planet really are. In his hands, complicated science is wonderfully accessible. The Revolutionary Genius of Plants opens the doors to a new understanding of life on earth.
©2018 Stefano Mancuso (P)2018 Simon & Schuster
Brilliant Green
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Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary - just too different from us. Yet discoveries over the past 50 years have challenged these ideas, shedding new light on the extraordinary capabilities and complex interior lives of plants. In Brilliant Green, Stefano Mancuso, a leading scientist and founder of the field of plant neurobiology, presents a new paradigm in our understanding of the vegetal world. Combining a historical perspective with the latest in plant science, Mancuso argues that, due to cultural prejudices and human arrogance, we continue to underestimate plants. In fact, they process information, sleep, remember, and signal to one another-showing that, far from passive machines, plants are intelligent and aware. Through a survey of plant capabilities from sight and touch to communication, Mancuso challenges our notion of intelligence, presenting a vision of plant life that is more sophisticated than most imagine.
©2013 Giunti Editore S.P.A. Firenze-Milano; English edition copyright 2015 by Island Press; Translation copyright 2015 by Joan Benham; Foreword copyright 2015 by Michael Pollan (P)2020 Tantor
The Incredible Journey of Plants
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When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understand that these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways plants move, we can see the incessant action and drive to spread life that has led plants to colonize every possible environment on earth. The history of this relentless expansion is unknown to most people, but we can begin our exploration with these surprising tales, engagingly told by Stefano Mancuso. Generation after generation, using spores, seeds, or any other means available, plants move in the world to conquer new spaces. The number and variety of tools through which seeds spread is astonishing: we have seeds dispersed by wind, by rolling on the ground, by animals, by water, or by a simple fall from the plant, which can happen thanks to propulsive mechanisms, the swaying of the mother plant, the drying of the fruit, and much more. In this accessible, absorbing overview, Mancuso considers how plants convince animals to transport them around the world, and how some plants need particular animals to spread; how they have been able to grow in places so inaccessible and inhospitable as to remain isolated; how they resisted the atomic bomb and the Chernobyl disaster; how they are able to bring life to sterile islands; how they can travel through the ages, as they sail around the world.
©2018 Gius. Laterza & Figli (P)2020 Tantor
L'Intelligence des plantes
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Les plantes sont-elles intelligentes ? Oui, et bien plus que nous ne pourrions l'imaginer, nous répond Stefano Mancuso. Savant de renommée mondiale, fondateur de la neurobiologie végétale, il est le premier à avoir démontré que, comme tous les êtres vivants, les plantes discernent formes et couleurs, mémorisent des données, communiquent. Elles ont une personnalité et développent une forme de vie sociale basée sur l'entraide et l'échange.Â
Véritable manifeste écologique, ce livre audio pionnier, qui a bénéficié d'une reconnaissance internationale, nous plonge dans un incroyable voyage au cœur du monde végétal. Un monde qui, en formant plus de 99 % de la biomasse, s'avère aujourd'hui indispensable pour l'humanité. Car si les plantes peuvent très bien vivre sans nous, nous ne survivrions pas longtemps sans elles ! À l'heure où l'on recherche d'autres modes de vie, où les ressources naturelles s'épuisent, nous avons tout à apprendre du monde végétal dont dépendent la survie et l'avenir de l'homme.
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©2018 Albin Michel. Traduit de l'italien par Renaud Temperini (P)2018 Audible Studios