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calistru_leonard's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
humocefalo's review against another edition
5.0
Este es un libro maravilloso para aquellos a los que le interese la botánica más allá de plantar bulbos en su casa. En él los autores explican características sorprendentes de los vegetales para que abramos los ojos a su indiscutible inteligencia e incluso superioridad. Las plantas no solo tienen nuestros mismos sentidos, sino que cuentan con muchos más. Además su sedentarismo ha provocado que desarrollen más su faceta estratégica, la más refinada de toda la vida terrestre.
Es un libro breve y ligero, aparte de apasionante. Lo que más me gusta es que ofrece recomendaciones bibliográficas por cada tema que trata, para quien quiera profundizar más en alguno.
Es un libro breve y ligero, aparte de apasionante. Lo que más me gusta es que ofrece recomendaciones bibliográficas por cada tema que trata, para quien quiera profundizar más en alguno.
jesselopod's review against another edition
2.0
I found this book thoroughly repetitive and pretty disappointing. I felt like it was Just says the same thing over and over, and continually restating that we are wrong about plants intelligence - a statement which seemed redundant to repeat because I had already bought the book and therefore bought into the fact plants exhibit intelligence, I wanted to learn more about why!
Might be a great book if you’ve never seen a plant before.
Might be a great book if you’ve never seen a plant before.
rumilexie's review against another edition
2.0
Had a very hard time reading it. The language is childish and overly simplified. I don't know if it's the translation that's extremely bad but I found it quite annoying and patronizing without being clever enough to even pull it's own logic off. Pity on such an interesting subject as plant intelligence.
maddox22's review against another edition
informative
fast-paced
1.5
This book is full of sloppy reasoning, imprecision, disingenuous comments, and over-egged pudding. The authors rail against "judging" plants as "unintelligent" because they don't look or act like animals...and yet they spend the whole book trying to "prove" that plants have the same senses and abilities as animals. Far from providing a convincing argument that plants have intelligence, this ends up simply highlighting the absurdity and obvious holes in their reasoning. If they had simply started from the position that plants have a DIFFERENT KIND of existence and intelligence than animals, the book would have been far better.
squirrelfish's review against another edition
2.0
This was okay. It felt a bit like it was an intro to the topic of plant intelligence without the descriptors and detailed studies of ecosystems and individual plants in books like [b:Lab Girl|25733983|Lab Girl|Hope Jahren|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1441826687l/25733983._SX50_.jpg|45572105], [b:The Hidden Lives of Trees|35014179|The Hidden Lives of Trees|Peter Wohlleben|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|48295241], or [b:In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World|39324259|In Search of the Canary Tree The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World|Lauren E. Oakes|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1538454062l/39324259._SY75_.jpg|60941192]. So if those have too much description, too much of the authors and too much beyond the theories for you, this is an okay alternative. I love all those books and read them all first, so this was just a little too introductory for me although it did inspire me to look at more of Darwin's journals and other historic botany books.
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