The Botany of Desire
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What’s it about?
A mind-bending look at how plants have used human desires for sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control to ensure their own global success.
You’ll learn
- Plants may be domesticating us
- Apples evolved sweetness to spread
- Tulip mania was beauty's power play
- Monoculture creates vulnerability