Seeds, Sex, and Civilization: How the Hidden Life of Plants Has Shaped Our World
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ISBN:9780500251706
Publisher : Thames & Hudson, September 30, 2010
Hardcover, 280 pages
The history of civilization told through the story of man’s relation to and use of seeds.
Seeds have influenced evolution, and for millennia they have influenced and sometimes determined where and how we live. This is an epic tale, given added enchantment by the fact that to most of us seeds mean little more than tiny objects in paper packets: who thinks first of rice, wheat, coffee, nuts, peas, beans, or olives? Here, Peter Thompson unfolds the absorbing history of how, after centuries of investigation, we finally discovered what seeds do and how they work.