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At the tips of our forks and on our dinner plates, a buffet of botanical dalliance awaits us. Sex and food are intimately intertwined, and this relationship is nowhere more evident …
An illustrated visit to the tropical arctic of 205 million years ago when Greenland was green.While today s Greenland is largely covered in ice, in the time of the dinosaurs the …
Until recently, seaweed for most Americans was nothing but a nuisance, clinging to us as we swim in the ocean and stinking up the beach as it rots in the sun. With the ever-growing …
The paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, the New World features some of the most …
Plant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature. Early in the twentieth century, this led some to experiment with startlingly strange tools like …
Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity. When they form, organisms are introduced into a new patchwork of species and habitats, forever altering the ecosystems into which …
A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet's power and fragility.What can we learn from the lives of …
The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799 1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime …
A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the past. This book traces the …
"e;What is a weed,"e; opined Emerson, "e;but a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered?"e; While that may be a worthy notion in theory, these plants of …