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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: As humans profit from plants, plants likewise profit from humans.
Chapter 3: Johnny Appleseed delivered apples and cider across the American frontier.
Chapter 4: Today, apple diversity has decreased, and now only two qualities matter: beauty and sweetness.
Chapter 5: Beautiful flowers are irresistible; they capture our attention, and they can even sometimes ruin us.
Chapter 6: Cannabis fulfills our desire for intoxication, and prohibition has made it even stronger today.
Chapter 7: Cannabis research has taught us much about the human brain.
Chapter 8: The potato meets our desire for control – even more now that we directly control its genes.
Description
The Botany of Desire (2001) explores the complex and fascinating relationship between humans and plants. In these blinks, we’ll see how plants manipulate humans by taking advantage of our four basic desires for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control, and how, in turn, we help plants reproduce and even grow stronger.
Who Should Listen
- Gardeners curious about our relationship with plants
- People interested in botany
- All readers with an interest in anthropology