Several recent bestsellers promise that plants are just like us. Are they getting ahead of the science?
Despite its subtitle and the author’s position as a professor of environmental and forest biology, the book is devoted to explaining the inadequacy of science compared with the Native American traditions Kimmerer is heir to as an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
She felt herself to be struggling against a paradigm, less dominant in the university than in forestry, perhaps, but misguided all the same: “the entrenched dogma that competition was the only interplant interaction that mattered in forests.” This framework, shaped by a too-narrow understanding of the workings of natural selection, kept researchers from perceiving that “collaboration” among species made the forest a complex network capable of sustaining many lives.
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