Artists’ impressions of the environment where prehistoric plants flourished
Christian Jegou/Science Photography Library
When the Earth was green
Riley Black (St. Martin’s Press (US, available now, UK, later this month))
Plant behavior is invisible to the naked human eye. They operate on a timescale that our imagination cannot entertain, and they run roughshods on familiar categories of self, others and community. I confess that I find them boring.
Luckily, others don’t – Riley Black, paleontologist, and sometimes New Scientist contributor. Wandering through (or does it pass through) the 14,000-year-old Aspen clone?
Source: www.newscientist.com
