Plants, Man and Life

Plants, Man and Life

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Book Description
A distinguished botanist examines the long history of human and plant interactions in this innovative ecological survey. Author Edgar Anderson analyzes suggestive pieces of evidence in a reader-friendly narrative that recounts the origins and evolution of plant life with all the intrigue of a good detective story. In tracing the development of human influence on plant life, Anderson focuses particularly on crops, which he reveals as having started out as weeds--hybrids that sprang up from the dump heaps and gardens of early humans. His investigation of the tangled and continuing history of weeds and cultivated plants ranges from autumnal European greens and the American sunflower to backyard landscapes in developing countries. 16 black-and-white illustrations.

Plants, Man and Life,Edgar Anderson,Dover Publications,0486441938,Botany,Botany, Economic,Fiction - Romance,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Plants - General,Plants and civilization,Nature / Plants

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