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Medientyp:
Buch
Titel:
In praise of plants
Werktitel:
Eloge de la plante <engl.>
Enthält:
Machine generated contents note: Foreword by David Lee -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Plants, Animals, and Humans -- Who Cares About Palms? -- Are Plants Alive? -- Contemplating Our Navel -- A Bias Bordering on Injustice -- The Garden and the Peasant -- The Sorcery of Omnipresence -- And the Disadvantage of Otherness -- A Bit of Psychology -- Comparing Plants and Animals -- Chapter 2 A Visit to the Landscape of Form -- Whence Form? -- Capturing Energy -- Plants, Vast Fixed Surfaces -- Animals, Small Mobile Volumes -- With Vast Internal Surfaces -- Consequences of Growth -- The Structure of Space -- The Scale of Natural Phenomena -- Relationship Between Form and Space -- Changing the Scale -- One Polarity and Radial Symmetry: Plants -- Two Polarities and Bilateral Symmetry: Animals -- And Monsters? -- What Is an Embryo -- Homeotic Genes -- Animal Eggs, Plant Eggs -- Animals Are Strange -- Hormones -- The Action of Light Remains a Mystery -- The Miniature Model Versus the Sample -- Closed and Open Development -- Storieg of Trees -- Fixed but Not Immobile -- The Time Scale for Plants -- Movement and Growth -- What Do the Poets Think? -- Individuals or Colonies? -- The Discovery of Reiteration -- What Is an Individual? -- Is a Tree an Individual? -- Potentially Immortal Beings -- Two Ways of Dying -- Chapter 3 The Cell -- Characteristics of the Eukaryotic Cell -- Differences in Structure -- One Cell Within Another -- Differences in Function -- Where the Horticulturist Precedes the Biologist -- Foreshadowing at the Cellular Level -- Chapter 4 Plant Biochemistry in a Nutshell -- The Silhouette, Cellulose or Protein -- A Regrettable Inelegance -- A Look at the Krebs Cycle -- Biochemistry for Normal Life -- Biochemistry for Relief -- An Altruistic Tree -- A Butterfly That Remembers Shapes -- Biochemistry to Take Advantage of Animal Mobility -- Are Animals Manipulated by Plants? -- A Pinnacle of Beauty -- Nauseating Flowers -- Copulating Flowers and Animals -- Chapter 5 Evolution -- Do Plants and Animals Evolve the Same Way? -- One Plant, Two Generations -- Parasitic Reduction in the Haploid Generation -- One Animal, One Generation -- Soma and Germ -- Do Plants Have a Germ Line? -- The Plasticity of Organisms -- Who Wins the Prize for Plasticity? -- Genomic Plasticity -- Generators of Genetic Diversity -- Tissue Culture -- Hybrids Between Species -- Genetic Diversity Within the Plant -- The Strangler Figs of Lake Gatin -- Sorting Mechanisms -- Predatory Action -- What Does Plant Sexuality Mean? -- What Causes Genetic Diversity Within a Plant? -- The Vertebrate Immune System -- Stationary Lives and Genetic Diversity -- Resistance of Biologists to a Genetics Unique to Plants -- Darwin or Lamarck? -- Are Bacteria Lamarckian? -- How Weeds Defend Themselves Against Herbicides -- Must We Choose Between Darwin and Lamarck? -- Geographic Convergence -- Divaricating Plants of New Zealand -- The Beeches of Verzy -- Mimes and Mimicry -- Two Different Classifications -- Chapter 6 Of OtherLiving Beings -- Fungi -- Trees and Corals -- Coral Architecture -- Returning to the Idea of the Individual -- Concerning Plasticity -- Reticulate Evolution -- The Forest and the Reef -- How to Live Fixed in Place -- Plants and Insect Societies -- Evolution of Behavior or of Form? -- Looking for Analogues -- Is a Plant a Crystal? -- Immanence and Transcen