Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants - Ken Thompson

Most of us think of Darwin at work on The Beagle taking inspiration for his theory of evolution from his travels in the Galapagos. But Darwin published his Origin of Species nearly thirty years after his voyages and most of his labours in that time were focused on experimenting with and observing plants at his house in Kent. He was particularly interested in carnivorous and climbing plants and in pollination and the evolution of flowers. Ken Thompson sees Darwin as a brilliant and revolutionary botanist whose observations and theories were far ahead of his time - and are often only now being confirmed and extended by high-tech modern research. Like Darwin he is fascinated and amazed by the powers of plants - particularly their Triffid-like aspects of movement hunting and 'plant intelligence'. This is a much needed book that re-establishes Darwin as a pioneering botanist whose close observations of plants were crucial to his theories of evolution.

TITLE: Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants

AUTHOR: Ken Thompson

SKU: 9781788160292

PUBLISHER: Profile Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 04/07/2019

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 256

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 129 mm x 198 mm